Dell H810, H710P, H310 manual Virtual Disk Management, Physical Disk Management

Virtual Disk Management

The Virtual Disk Management menu can be used to create and manage virtual disks on the controller. The following functions can be performed under Virtual Disk Management. Each of these functions is its own selectable menu option.

•Create Virtual Disk—Creates a virtual disk by selecting the RAID level, physical disks, and virtual disk parameters.

•Manage Virtual Disk Properties—Displays and manages virtual disk properties, view associated physical disks and manage dedicated hot spares.

•Select Virtual Disk Operations—Selects and executes virtual disk operations such as delete, locate, secure, expand, initialization and consistency check.

•View Disk Group Properties—Displays information about the available disk groups, associated virtual disks, and the capacity allocation.

•Reconfigure Virtual Disks—Performs a RAID Level Migration (RLM) which converts a virtual disk to a different RAID level.

•Create CacheCade Virtual Disks—Creates a CacheCade virtual disk by selecting solid state disks (SSDs).

Physical Disk Management

The Physical Disk Management menu can be used to view and manage physical disks on the controller. The following functions can be performed under Physical Disk Management. Each of these functions is its own selectable menu option.

•View Physical Disk Properties—Displays information about all the physical disks including their state.

•Select Physical Disk Operations—Selects and execute physical disk operations such as locate, assign/unassign hot spare, replace member, force offline/online, and convert to RAID Capable/Non-RAID.

•View Global Hot Spares—Displays all the assigned global hot spares on the controller.

Management Applications for PERC Cards

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