Dell H810, H710P, H310 manual Virtual Disk Actions, Action Description

Menu Item Selected in Left Panel Information Displayed in Right Panel

•Number of physical disks (PD)

•Space available on the physical disks

•Number of free segments

•Number of dedicated hot spares

Hot Spares Physical Disk Properties:

•Vendor name

•Physical disk state

•Enclosure Position

•Slot Position

Disk Group # Properties:

•Number of virtual disks (VD)

•Number of physical disks (PD)

•Space available on the physical disks

•Number of free segments

•Number of dedicated hot spares

Virtual Disk Actions

The following table describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks. For procedures you can use to perform the actions, see Virtual Disk Management.

Table 6. Virtual Disk Actions

Action	Description
Create a new virtual disk	Creates a new virtual disk from one or more physical disks. You can configure hot spares
	when you create a virtual disk.
Manage dedicated hot	Creates or deletes a hot spare that you can dedicate to a single redundant virtual disk.
spares
Initialize a virtual disk	Initializes the selected virtual disk. You must initialize every virtual disk that is configured.
	You can perform a fast initialization or a full initialization.
Check data consistency	Verifies the correctness of the redundancy data in the selected virtual disk. The option is
on a virtual disk	available only if RAID level 1, 5, 6, 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 virtual	Displays the properties of the selected virtual disk. You can modify the cache write policy
disk parameters	and read policy from the menu.
Manage preserved	Preserves the dirty cache from a virtual disk if it becomes offline or is deleted. The dirty
cache	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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