Menu Item Selected in Left Panel Information Displayed in Right Panel• Number of physical disks (PD)• Space available on the physical disks• Number of free segments• Number of dedicated hot sparesHot Spares Physical Disk Properties:• Vendor name• Physical disk state• Enclosure Position• Slot PositionDisk Group # Properties:• Number of virtual disks (VD)• Number of physical disks (PD)• Space available on the physical disks• Number of free segments• Number of dedicated hot sparesVirtual Disk ActionsThe following table describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks. For detailed information oneach action below, see Virtual Disk Management.Table 6. Virtual Disk ActionsAction DescriptionCreate a new virtualdiskCreates a new virtual disk from one or more physical disks. You can configurehot spares when you create a virtual disk.Manage dedicatedhot sparesCreates or deletes a hot spare, which is dedicated to a single redundant virtualdisk.Initialize a virtual disk Initializes the selected virtual disk. You must initialize every virtual disk that isconfigured. You can perform a fast initialization or a full initialization.Check dataconsistency on avirtual diskVerifies the correctness of the redundancy data in the selected virtual disk. Theoption is available only if RAID level 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 is used. The PERCH730P card automatically corrects any differences found in the data.Display or updatevirtual diskparametersDisplays the properties of the selected virtual disk. You can modify the cachewrite policy and read policy from the menu.Manage preservedcachePreserves the dirty cache from a virtual disk if it goes offline or is deleted. Thedirty 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 disksubsystems controlled by the management software.54
