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– CC Mode: Concurrent is the default
This specifies whether to concurrently or sequentially check consistency of
the virtual drives.
Virtual Disks option
In the WebBIOS main window, select a particular virtual drive from the list of
Virtual Drives and then click Virtual Disks from the menu. The window view
changes, listing the features for managing virtual disks.
This view is available after creation of virtual disks only. Virtual disks, also known
as logical drives, are arrays or spanned arrays that are available to the operating
system. The storage space in a virtual disk is spread across all the physical
drives in the array.
A virtual drive can have the following states:
Optimal
The virtual disk operating condition is good. All configured physical drives are
online.
Degraded
The virtual disk operating condition is not optimal. One of the configured
physical drives has failed or is offline.
Failed
The virtual disk has failed.
Offline
The virtual disk is not available to the RAID controller.
This section discusses the features shown in Figure 3-60.
Figure 3-60 Virtual disk features
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