Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 6i - Manual (Page 101)

Configuring and Managing RAID
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Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt)
The Physical Disk Management screen, PD Mgmt, displays physical disk
information and action menus. The screen displays physical disk IDs, vendor
names, disk size, type, state, and disk group (DG). You can sort the list of
physical disks based on these headings. You can perform several actions on the
physical disks, including the following:
• Rebuilding physical disks
• Performing the Replace Member operation
• Setting the LED to blink
• Making a disk online or offline (unaffiliated with a disk group)
• Creating global hot spares
• Removing dedicated hot spares or global hot spares
Physical Disk Actions
Table 6-5 describes the actions you can perform on physical disks.
For procedures that can be used to perform these actions, see "Physical Disk
Management" on page 104.
Table 6-5. Physical Disk Actions
Action Description
Rebuild Regenerates all data to a replacement disk in a redundant
virtual disk (RAID level 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60) after a disk
failure. A disk rebuild normally occurs without interrupting
normal operations on the affected virtual disk.
Replace Member Replaces the drive in the virtual disk with another drive that
can be selected.
LED Blinking Indicates when physical disks are being used to create a virtual
disk. You can choose to start or stop the LED blinking.
Force Online Changes the state of the selected physical disk to online.
Force Offline Changes the state of the selected physical disk so that it is no
longer part of a virtual disk.
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