User's Manual

230 Virtual Disks
Virtual Disk Tasks
To execute a virtual disk drop-down menu task:
Bus Protocol This property displays the technology that the physical disks
included in the virtual disk are using. Possible values are:
SCSI—Small Computer System Interface
SAS—Serial Attached SCSI
SATA—Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Media This property displays the media type of the physical disks
present in the virtual disk. The possible values are:
HDD—Hard Disk Drive. A HDD is a non-volatile storage
device which stores digitally-encoded data on rapidly rotating
platters with magnetic surfaces.
SSD—Solid State Drive. An SSD is a data storage device that
uses solid-state memory to store persistent data.
Unknown—Storage Management is unable to determine the
media type of the physical disk.
NOTE: You cannot have a mix of HDD and SSD media on a
virtual disk. Also, you cannot have a mix of SAS and SATA drives
on the virtual disk.
Read Policy This property displays the read policy that the controller is
using for this virtual disk. See RAID Controller Read, Write,
Cache, and Disk Cache Policy.
Write Policy This property displays the write policy that the controller is
using for this virtual disk. See RAID Controller Read, Write,
Cache, and Disk Cache Policy.
Cache Policy This property displays the cache policy that the controller is
using for this virtual disk. See RAID Controller Read, Write,
Cache, and Disk Cache Policy.
Stripe Size This property displays the stripe size of the virtual disk.
Disk Cache Policy This property displays whether the disk cache policy of the
physical disks that are part of the virtual disk is enabled or
disabled. See RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk
Cache Policy.
Property Definition