Initialize, Disk commands – Dell PowerVault 770N (Deskside NAS Appliance) User Manual
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4. Click OK to continue or Cancel to quit the operation.
When you are finished, click Properties to verify if the policy changes occurred.
Using Check Consistency
If your disk is in a degraded state, using Check Consistency might enable you to restore your disk to Ready status.
To check mirror synchronization and rebuild parity if necessary, perform the following steps:
1. Right-click the virtual disk to be checked.
2. Click Check Consistency.
The Check Consistency operation displays progress information in the right pane.
3. To view progress, click the parent of the virtual disk.
The status of the virtual disk is Resynching, and progress information displays until the operation is finished.
Properties
This command displays a window that shows the properties associated with the virtual disk.
Blink Virtual Disk
This command allows you to locate the array disks included in a virtual disk by blinking the LEDs on the array disks. This
command automatically cancels after a short duration such as 30 or 60 seconds.
Unblink Virtual Disk
This command allows you to cancel the Blink Virtual Disk command before the 30- or 60-second time limit has been
reached.
Disk Commands
Initialize
Initialize any array disk before you use it.
Perform the following procedure on any array disk on a supported RAID controller.
NOTICE:
All data on the virtual disk is lost when the disk is initialized.