Dell H710 Server User Manual


 
Management Applications for PERC Cards 91
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.