Dell PowerVault MD3000 - Manual (Page 6)

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Contents
6 Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
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53
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 54
Automatic Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Manual Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Automatically Configuring Hot Spares . . . . . . . 58
Manually Configuring Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . 59
Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . . 60
Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual
Disk Mapping
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Changing Controller Ownership of the
Virtual Disk
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Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 62
Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Storage Array Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Changing Media Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . 63
Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Microsoft Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Virtual Disk Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Volume Shadow-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . 65