Dell POWERVAULT MD3600I - Manual (Page 6)

Managing Host Port Identifiers ..............................................................................................................................60
7 Disk Groups, Standard Virtual Disks, And Thin Virtual Disks.............................................63
Creating Disk Groups And Virtual Disks .................................................................................................................63
Creating Disk Groups ........................................................................................................................................63
Locating A Disk Group ......................................................................................................................................65
Creating Standard Virtual Disks .......................................................................................................................65
Changing The Virtual Disk Modification Priority ..............................................................................................66
Changing The Virtual Disk Cache Settings .......................................................................................................67
Changing The Segment Size Of A Virtual Disk .................................................................................................68
Changing The IO Type ......................................................................................................................................68
Thin Virtual Disks ....................................................................................................................................................69
Advantages Of Thin Virtual Disks .....................................................................................................................69
Physical Vs Virtual Capacity On A Thin Virtual Disk ........................................................................................69
Thin Virtual Disk Requirements And Limitations ..............................................................................................70
Thin Volume Attributes .....................................................................................................................................70
Thin Virtual Disk States ....................................................................................................................................71
Comparison—Types Of Virtual Disks And Copy Services ...............................................................................71
Rollback On Thin Virtual Disks .........................................................................................................................72
Initializing A Thin Virtual Disk ...........................................................................................................................72
Changing A Thin Virtual Disk To A Standard Virtual Disk ................................................................................75
Choosing An Appropriate Physical Disk Type ........................................................................................................75
Physical Disk Security With Self Encrypting Disk ..................................................................................................75
Creating A Security Key ...................................................................................................................................77
Changing A Security Key ..................................................................................................................................78
Saving A Security Key ......................................................................................................................................79
Validate Security Key .......................................................................................................................................80
Unlocking Secure Physical Disks .....................................................................................................................80
Erasing Secure Physical Disks .........................................................................................................................80
Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks ....................................................................................................................80
Hot Spares And Rebuild ...................................................................................................................................81
Global Hot Spares ............................................................................................................................................82
Hot Spare Operation .........................................................................................................................................82
Hot Spare Drive Protection ..............................................................................................................................82
Enclosure Loss Protection ......................................................................................................................................83
Drawer Loss Protection ..........................................................................................................................................83
Host-To-Virtual Disk Mapping ................................................................................................................................84
Creating Host-To-Virtual Disk Mappings .........................................................................................................85
Modifying And Removing Host-To-Virtual Disk Mapping ................................................................................86
Changing Controller Ownership Of The Virtual Disk ........................................................................................86
Removing Host-To-Virtual Disk Mapping .........................................................................................................87
Changing The RAID Controller Module Ownership Of A Disk Group ...............................................................87