Dell UCS-51 manual Performing Configuration Tasks, Exit Screen

Table 5-3. Manage Virtual Disk Field Descriptions

Field	Description
Identifier	The identifier of the virtual disk
Type	The RAID type of the virtual disk
Scan Order	The scan order of the virtual disk
Size (MB)	The size of the virtual disk
Status	The status of the virtual disk
Synchronize Mirror	This option is used to synchronize the IM virtual disk.
	This option is not accessible under the following conditions:
	• The virtual disk is inactive.
	• The virtual disk does not need to be resynchronized.
	• IS virtual disk is used.
Manage Secondary Disk	This option is used to add a secondary drive to a degraded IM virtual disk with a
	missing member.
	This option is not accessible under the following conditions:
	• The virtual disk is inactive.
	• The virtual disk is not a degraded IM virtual disk with a missing member.
	• IS virtual disk is used.
Activate Mirror	This option is used to activate an inactive (foreign) virtual disk. The option is
	grayed out if there are no inactive virtual disks.
Delete Virtual Disk	This option is used to delete the currently displayed virtual disk

Exit Screen

It is important to exit the SAS BIOS Configuration Utility properly, because some changes take effect only when you exit. From the Adapter List, press <Esc> to exit. In addition, a similar exit screen appears when you exit most other screens, and it can be used to save settings.

Performing Configuration Tasks

Creating an Integrated Striping Virtual Disk

An Integrated Striping (IS) virtual disk, also referred to as RAID 0, offers the ability to stripe data across multiple physical disks. This can increase storage capacity and performance by combining multiple disks into one logical virtual disk. Follow these steps to create an IS virtual disk on a SAS 5/iR controller that does not currently have a virtual disk configured.

1Select a controller from the Adapter List in the Configuration Utility.

2Select the RAID Properties option.

SAS 5/iR BIOS

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