Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H700 - Manual (Page 104)

104 Configuring and Managing RAID
Virtual Disk Actions
Table 6-4 describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks.
For procedures you can use to perform the actions, See "Virtual Disk
Management" on page 88.
Table 6-4. Virtual Disk Actions
Action Description
Create a new virtual
disk
Creates a new virtual disk from one or more physical disks.
You can configure hot spares when you create a virtual disk.
Manage dedicated
hot spares
Creates or deletes a hot spare that you can dedicate to a single
redundant virtual disks.
Initialize a
virtual disk
Initializes the selected virtual disk. You must initialize every
virtual disk that is configured. You can perform a fast
initialization or a Full Initialization.
Check data
consistency on a
virtual disk
Verifies the correctness of the redundancy data in the selected
virtual disk. The option is available only if RAID level 1, 5, 6,
10, 50, or 60 is used. The PERC H700 or PERC H800 cards
automatically correct any differences found in the data.
Display or update
virtual disk
parameters
Displays the properties of the selected virtual disk. You can
modify the cache write policy and read policy from the menu.
Manage preserved
cache
Preserves the dirty cache from a virtual disk if it becomes offline
or is deleted. The dirty cache is preserved until you import the
virtual disk or discard the cache.
Delete a virtual disk Deletes the virtual disk and frees up disk space to create
another virtual disk.
Delete a disk group Deletes a disk group, which is a collection of disks from one or
more disk subsystems controlled by management software.
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