Dell PowerVault MD3820f - Manual (Page 6)

Adding A Host To A Host Group ...................................................................................................74
Removing A Host From A Host Group ......................................................................................... 74
Moving A Host To A Different Host Group ...................................................................................74
Removing A Host Group ............................................................................................................... 75
Host Topology ............................................................................................................................... 75
Starting Or Stopping The Host Context Agent .............................................................................75
I/O Data Path Protection .................................................................................................................... 76
Managing Host Port Identifiers ........................................................................................................... 76
7 Disk Groups, Standard Virtual Disks, And Thin Virtual Disks.......................79
Creating Disk Groups And Virtual Disks ............................................................................................. 79
Creating Disk Groups ....................................................................................................................80
Locating A Disk Group ...................................................................................................................81
Creating Standard Virtual Disks .....................................................................................................81
Changing The Virtual Disk Modification Priority .......................................................................... 82
Changing The Virtual Disk Cache Settings ...................................................................................83
Changing The Segment Size Of A Virtual Disk .............................................................................84
Changing The IO Type ..................................................................................................................85
Thin Virtual Disks .................................................................................................................................86
Advantages Of Thin Virtual Disks ..................................................................................................86
Physical Vs Virtual Capacity On A Thin Virtual Disk .....................................................................86
Thin Virtual Disk Requirements And Limitations .......................................................................... 87
Thin Volume Attributes ................................................................................................................. 87
Thin Virtual Disk States ..................................................................................................................88
Comparison—Types Of Virtual Disks And Copy Services ............................................................88
Rollback On Thin Virtual Disks ......................................................................................................89
Initializing A Thin Virtual Disk ........................................................................................................89
Changing A Thin Virtual Disk To A Standard Virtual Disk ............................................................ 92
Choosing An Appropriate Physical Disk Type ....................................................................................92
Physical Disk Security With Self Encrypting Disk ............................................................................... 92
Creating A Security Key .................................................................................................................94
Changing A Security Key ...............................................................................................................96
Saving A Security Key .................................................................................................................... 96
Validate Security Key ..................................................................................................................... 97
Unlocking Secure Physical Disks .................................................................................................. 97
Erasing Secure Physical Disks ....................................................................................................... 97
Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks ................................................................................................98
Hot Spares And Rebuild ................................................................................................................ 99
Global Hot Spares ......................................................................................................................... 99
Hot Spare Operation .....................................................................................................................99
Hot Spare Drive Protection .........................................................................................................100
Enclosure Loss Protection ................................................................................................................100