Dell Computer Drive manual Microsoft Services, Suspending the Media Scan, Virtual Disk Service

3In the Select virtual disks to scan box, click the virtual disk you want to include in the media scan.

NOTE: Press <Ctrl> and click to add more than one virtual disk to the media scan. Click Select All to include all virtual disks in the media scan.

4Check the Scan selected virtual disks checkbox to enable scanning, then choose either With consistency check or Without consistency check.

Consistency check enables parity data to be checked during the media scan.

5Click OK to accept the updated media scan settings.

Suspending the Media Scan

You cannot perform a media scan while performing another long-running operation on the disk drive such as reconstruction, copy-back, reconfiguration, volume initialization, or immediate availability formatting. If you want to perform another long-running operation, you should suspend the media scan.

NOTE: A background media scan is the lowest priority of the long-running operations.

1Click the Tools tab, then click Change Media Scan Settings.

2Check the Suspend media scan checkbox.

3Click OK to suspend media scanning.

Microsoft Services

Virtual Disk Service

The Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) is supported on your RAID storage array. Microsoft VDS is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks and other storage hardware, including creating volumes on those disks.

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Disk Groups and Virtual Disks