Replacing A Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts......................................................................................................104
Disk Is Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk.................................................................................................................. 104
Disk Is Not Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk.......................................................................................................... 104
Other Disk Procedures......................................................................................................................................................105
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties.................................................................................................................. 105
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks.......................................................................................................................... 108
Physical Disk Tasks............................................................................................................................................................108
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk ................................................................................................................... 109
Removing Dead Segments......................................................................................................................................... 109
Preparing To Remove..................................................................................................................................................109
Rebuilding Data.............................................................................................................................................................109
Canceling A Rebuild...................................................................................................................................................... 110
Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare........................................................................................................... 110
Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline.............................................................................................................. 110
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear................................................................................................. 111
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare.................................................................................................................................... 112
Enabling Instant Encrypt Erase................................................................................................................................... 112
Convert To RAID Capable Disk................................................................................................................................... 113
Convert To Non-RAID Disk..........................................................................................................................................113
14 Virtual Disks.............................................................................................................................114
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks................................................................................................................. 114
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers............................................................................................................... 115
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, S130, And S300 Controllers.................................................. 116
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux...........................................................................................117
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk................................................................................................................ 117
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller..................................................................................................................... 117
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size................................................................................................................117
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks................................................................................................................................117
Creating Virtual Disks......................................................................................................................................................... 118
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks.........................................................................................................................118
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion.................................. 119
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks.................................................................................................. 120
Rebuilding Redundant Information.................................................................................................................................. 120
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management............................................................................................................. 120
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks....................................................................................................................121
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks.....................................................................................................................................121
Virtual Disk Properties................................................................................................................................................. 122
Virtual Disk Tasks......................................................................................................................................................... 123
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks......................................................................................................................................... 124
Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk....................................................................................................................................... 124
Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize................................................................................................................ 124
Canceling Background Initialization............................................................................................................................124
Restoring Dead Segments.......................................................................................................................................... 125
Deleting Data On the Virtual Disk...............................................................................................................................125
Performing A Check Consistency.............................................................................................................................. 125
Canceling A Check Consistency.................................................................................................................................125
Pausing A Check Consistency....................................................................................................................................125
Resuming A Check Consistency................................................................................................................................ 125
Blinking And Unblinking A Virtual Disk....................................................................................................................... 126
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