Dell 6 series User Manual page 97

• Controller Management (Ctrl Mgmt) menu
• Foreign Configuration View menu
Most menus consist of two panels:
• A left panel with the menu options
• A right panel with details of the items selected in the left panel
The following sections describe the menu and submenu options for each of
the major menus.
Virtual Disk Management (VD Mgmt)
The Virtual Disk Management screen, VD Mgmt, is the first screen that
displays when you access a RAID controller from the main menu screen on
the BIOS Configuration Utility. In the Tree View, the left panel displays the
menus for the virtual disk management, which are:
• Controller #
• Disk Group #
• Virtual Disks (displayed in descending numerical order)
• Physical Disks (individual physical disks are displayed in
enclosure:slot format)
• Space Allocation (virtual disk size and free space you can use to
create a virtual disk)
• Hot Spares (global and dedicated)
In the Tree View, the right panel displays detailed information for the selected
controllers, disk groups, virtual disks, physical disks, space allocation, and hot
spares, as shown in Table 6-3.
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