The Virtual Disk Reconfiguration dialog box appears. The available disks are listed in the left pane. You can choose appropriate disks to add by
selecting them and using Add Disk to move them to the right pane.
3. Select the RAID level in the Type drop-down menu.
4. Click OK to continue or Cancel to cancel the operation.
5. To view your progress, click the parent of the virtual disk.
The status of the virtual disk will be Reconstructing, and progress information displays until the Add Member operation is finished. At the end of the
operation, the Type category shows the changed RAID level.
Using Change Policy
To change the cache policies of a virtual disk, perform the following steps:
1. Right-click a virtual disk.
2. Click Change Policy.
The Virtual Disk Change Policy dialog box displays.
3. From the pull-down menu, choose the policies you want.
You can enable or disable the write-cache or enable or disable the read-cache.
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 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.
NOTE: You cannot change the Write Cache settings on a Hardware-RAID virtual disk after the arrays have been created.
NOTE: The write-cache is enabled by default. Disabling write-cache may negatively impact your system's performance.