Instruction Manual

100 Configuring and Managing RAID
Most menus consist of two panels:
• A left panel with the menu options
• A right panel with details of the items selected in the left panel
The following sections describe the menu and submenu options for each of
the major menus:
Virtual Disk Management (VD Mgmt)
The Virtual Disk Management screen, VD Mgmt, is the first screen that is
displayed when you access a RAID controller from the main menu screen on
the BIOS Configuration Utility. The left panel displays the menus for the
virtual disk management, which are:
• Controller #
• Disk Group #
• Virtual Disks
• Physical Disks
• Total Free Capacity (virtual disk size and free space you can use
to create a virtual disk)
•
Hot Spares (global and dedicated)
The right panel displays detailed information for the selected controllers,
disk groups, virtual disks, physical disks, total free capacity, and hot spares, as
shown in Table 6-3.
Table 6-3. Information on the Virtual Disk Management Screen
Menu Item Selected
in Left Panel
Information Displayed in Right Panel
Controller Controller Properties:
• Number of disk groups (DG)
• Number of virtuals disks (VD)
• Number of physical disks (PD)
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