Dell POWERVAULT MD3600F - Manual (Page 5)

Contents 5
Virtual Disk Initialization
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47
Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Cycle Time
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49
Virtual Disk Operations Limit
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49
Disk Group Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
RAID Level Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disk Group Expansion
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51
Disk Group Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
RAID Background Operations Priority . . . . . . . . . 52
Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . 53
Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Host Server–to–Virtual Disk Mapping
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55
Host Types
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56
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . 57
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together
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59
Multi-Path Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Preferred and Alternate Controllers
and Paths
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59
Virtual Disk Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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