Dell 750N. 755N Using Check Consistency, Click Check Consistency, Initializing Virtual Disks

3From the pull-down menu, choose the policies you want.

You can enable or disable the write-cache or enable or disable the read-cache.

4Click 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 enable you to restore your disk to Ready status.

To check mirror synchronization and rebuild parity if necessary, perform the following steps:

1Right-click the virtual disk to be checked.

2Click Check Consistency.

The Check Consistency operation displays progress information in the right pane.

3To 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.

Initializing Virtual Disks

Initialize any virtual disk before you use it.

Perform the following procedure on any virtual disk on a PERC 3/DC or PERC 3/QC controller system.

NOTICE: All data on the virtual disk is lost when the disk is initialized.

1Right-click the virtual disk that you want to initialize.

2Click Initialize.

The status of the disk displays Initializing in the right pane until the operation is finished.

Properties

This command displays a window that shows the properties associated with the virtual disk.

Advanced Disk and Volume Management Using Array Manager

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