Contents 5
Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Foreground Initialization
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Consistency Check
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Cycle Time
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Virtual Disk Operations Limit
. . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Disk Group Operations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
RAID Level Migration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Segment Size Migration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 49
Disk Group Expansion
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Disk Group Defragmentation
. . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
RAID Background Operations Priority . . . . . . . . . 50
Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming
. . . . . . . . 51
Disk Migration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Host Server–to–Virtual Disk Mapping
. . . . . . . 53
Host Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Snapshot Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . 55
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Virtual Disk Recovery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together
. . . . . . 57
Multi–Path Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Preferred and Alternate
Controllers and Paths
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Virtual Disk Ownership
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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