Dell H710P, H310, H810 manual Virtual Disk Actions Description

Virtual Disk Actions

Table 5-4 describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks. For procedures you can use to perform the actions, See "Virtual Disk Management" on page 58.

Table 5-4. Virtual Disk Actions

Action	Description
Create a new virtual	Creates a new virtual disk from one or more physical disks.
disk	You can configure hot spares when you create a virtual disk.
Manage dedicated	Creates or deletes a hot spare that you can dedicate to a single
hot spares	redundant virtual disks.
Initialize a	Initializes the selected virtual disk. You must initialize every
virtual disk	virtual disk that is configured. You can perform a fast
	initialization or a Full Initialization.
Check data	Verifies the correctness of the redundancy data in the selected
consistency on a	virtual disk. The option is available only if RAID level 1, 5, 6,
virtual disk	10, 50, or 60 is used. The PERC H310, H710, H710P, or H810
	cards automatically correct any differences found in the data.
Display or update	Displays the properties of the selected virtual disk. You can
virtual disk	modify the cache write policy and read policy from the menu.
parameters
Manage preserved	Preserves the dirty cache from a virtual disk if it becomes offline
cache	or is deleted. The dirty cache is preserved until you import the
	virtual disk or discard the cache.
Delete a virtual disk	Deletes the virtual disk and frees up disk space to create
	another virtual disk.
Delete a disk group	Deletes a disk group, which is a collection of disks from one or
	more disk subsystems controlled by management software.

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Management Applications for PERC Cards