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• Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare: See "Assign and Unassign
Global Hot Spare."
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Check Consistency, Cancel Check Consistency, Pause Check
Consistency, and Resume Check Consistency:
See "Maintain Integrity of
Redundant Virtual Disks."
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Blink and Unblink: The Blink and Unblink tasks blink or unblink the
lights on the physical disks included in the virtual disk.
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Rename: Use this task to rename a virtual disk.
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Change Policy: Use this task to change a virtual disk's read, write, cache or
disk cache policy.
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Split Mirror: Use this task to separate mirrored data originally configured
as a RAID 1, RAID 1-concatenated, or RAID 10 virtual disk.
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Unmirror: Use this task to separate mirrored data and restore one half of
the mirror to free space.
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Replace member disk: Use this task to copy data from a physical disk,
which is a member of a virtual disk, to another physical disk by providing
the replace member configuration option. You can initiate multiple copies
of data from different array groups.
Additional Storage Management Features and Documentation
For complete documentation on the Storage Management Service, see the
Storage Management online help and the Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator Storage Management User's Guide. For information on how to
launch the online help, see "Displaying Online Help."
Migrating from Array Manager to the Storage
Management
If you replace an existing Array Manager installation with Storage
Management, the following migration considerations apply:
• Virtual Disk Preservation: You can preserve the virtual disk names when
migrating from Array Manager to Storage Management. To do so, however,
you must not uninstall Array Manager prior to installing Storage
Management. If Array Manager is uninstalled prior to installing Storage
Management, then Storage Management will rename the virtual disks
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