Dell UCSA-901 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
Action Description
Manage preserved
cache
Preserves the dirty cache from a virtual disk if it goes offline or is deleted. The
dirty 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 the management software.
Physical disk management (PD Mgmt)
The Physical Disk Management screen (PD Mgmt) displays physical disk information and action menus.
The screen displays physical disk IDs, vendor names, disk size, type, state, and disk group (DG). You can
sort the list of physical disks based on the headings. You can perform several actions on the physical
disks, including the following:
Rebuilding physical disks
Performing the Replace Member operation
Setting the LED to blink
Making a disk online or offline (unaffiliated with a disk group)
Creating global hot spares
Removing dedicated hot spares or global hot spares
The PD Mgmt screen also displays several physical disk properties as shown in the following table.
Table 7. Information on the Physical Disk Management Screen
Information Displayed in Left Panel Supported Information Displayed in Right Panel
Physical Disk:
Disk ID
Protocol type
Capacity (GB)
Physical Disk State
Disk Group
Vendor
Security Property of Physical Disk
Encryption Capable
Product ID
Firmware Revision
Disk Write Cache
S.M.A.R.T state
Physical Disk operation
Max Device Link Rate
Negotiated Link Rate
Dell Certified Disk (512 or 4k)
Physical disk actions
The following table describes the actions you can perform on physical disks. For procedures that can be
used to perform the actions, see Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt).
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