Users Guide

6 Contents
6 Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 54
Automatic Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Manual Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Hot Spare Drive Protection
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Automatically Configuring Hot Spares
. . . . . . . 58
Manually Configuring Hot Spares
. . . . . . . . . 59
Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings
. . . . . . 60
Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual
Disk Mapping
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Changing Controller Ownership of the
Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Storage Partitioning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 62
Disk Group Expansion
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Export Disk Group
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Storage Array Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Changing Media Scan Settings
. . . . . . . . . . 66
Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Microsoft Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Virtual Disk Service
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Volume Shadow-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . 67