Dell MD3600F Server User Manual


 
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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