Contents 5
Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Background Initialization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
RAID Level Migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disk Group Defragmentation. . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
RAID Background Operations Priority . . . . . . . . . 52
Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming. . . . . . . . 53
Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Host Server–to–Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . 55
Host Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 57
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Virtual Disk Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 59
Multi-Path Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Preferred and Alternate Controllers
and Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Virtual Disk Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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