Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710 - Manual (Page 51)

Menu Item Selected in Left Panel Information Displayed in Right Panel
• Number of physical disks (PD)
• Space available on the physical disks
• Number of free segments
• Number of dedicated hot spares
Hot Spares Physical Disk Properties:
• Vendor name
• Physical disk state
• Enclosure Position
• Slot Position
Disk Group # Properties:
• Number of virtual disks (VD)
• Number of physical disks (PD)
• Space available on the physical disks
• Number of free segments
• Number of dedicated hot spares
Virtual Disk Actions
The following table describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks. For procedures you can use to perform the
actions, see
Virtual Disk Management .
Table 6. 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 disk.
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 H310, H710, H710P, or H810
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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