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    Dell Server Administrator Storage Management Version 11.1.0.0
Dell Server Administrator Storage Management Version 11.1.0.0
Rev. A00
  • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Overview
  • Getting Started
  • Understanding RAID concepts
  • Quick access to Storage Status and Tasks
  • PCI Express Solid-State Drive support
  • Storage Information and Global Tasks
  • Controllers
  • Support for PERC hardware controllers
  • Support for BOSS RAID controllers
  • Enclosures and Backplanes
  • Connectors
  • Tape Drive
  • RAID Controller Batteries
  • Physical Disks or Physical Devices
  • Virtual Disks
  • Moving Physical and Virtual Disks from one system to another
  • Protecting your Virtual Disk with a Hot Spare
  • Troubleshooting
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Supported features
  • Determining the health status for storage components
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  • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Overview
  • Getting Started
  • Understanding RAID concepts
  • Quick access to Storage Status and Tasks
  • PCI Express Solid-State Drive support
  • Storage Information and Global Tasks
  • Controllers
  • Support for PERC hardware controllers
  • Support for BOSS RAID controllers
  • Enclosures and Backplanes
  • Connectors
  • Tape Drive
  • RAID Controller Batteries
  • Physical Disks or Physical Devices
    • Guidelines to replace a Physical Disk or Physical Device
    • Adding a disk to the system
    • Replacing a Physical Disk receiving SMART alerts
    • SMART attribute polling interval
    • Other disk procedures
    • Physical Disk or Physical Device Properties
    • Physical Disk or Physical Device Tasks
    • Physical Disk Tasks
      • Blinking and Unblinking a Physical Disk
      • Preparing to Remove
      • Rebuilding data
      • Cancel a Rebuild
      • Cancel Replace Member
      • Assigning and Unassigning Global Hot Spare
      • Setting the Physical Disk Online or Offline
      • Performing a Clear Physical Disk and Cancel Clear
      • Enabling Revertible Hot Spare
      • Performing Cryptographic Erase
      • Exporting the Log for PERC NVMe drives
      • Convert to RAID Capable Disk
      • Convert to non-RAID disk
      • Encrypt host physical disk
  • Virtual Disks
  • Moving Physical and Virtual Disks from one system to another
  • Protecting your Virtual Disk with a Hot Spare
  • Troubleshooting
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Supported features
  • Determining the health status for storage components
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  3. Physical Disk Tasks

Physical Disk Tasks

The following are the list of tasks that you can perform on a physical disk:

  • Blinking and Unblinking a Physical Disk
  • Assigning and Unassigning Global Hot Spare
  • Preparing to Remove
  • Setting Online and Offline
  • Rebuilding data
  • Cancel a Rebuild
  • Cancel Replace Member
  • Performing a Clear Physical Disk and Cancel Clear
  • Enabling Revertible Hot Spare
  • Performing Cryptographic Erase
  • Exporting the Log for PERC NVMe Drivers
  • Convert to RAID Capable Disk
  • Convert to Non-RAID Disk