Chapter 6

Managing Disks

About this chapter  

This chapter describes disk management on appliances. The information in this chapter covers disk management on appliances that support RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) Level 4.

Sections in this chapter  

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section A, RAID
• Section B, RAID disk management
• Section C, Reinitializing all disks

Procedures and option descriptions  

See the Appliance Manager online Help for configuration procedures and option descriptions related to the following disk maintenance topics:

• Adding disks to your system
• Removing disks from your system
• Replacing a failed disk on your system

Location of configuration options  

Options for configuring the features discussed in this chapter are in the following locations in the Appliance Manager.

Feature	Location
Disk management	Maintenance tab > Disk > Management
Firmware management	Maintenance tab > Disk > Firmware
Qual Devices management	Maintenance tab > Disk > Qual Devices

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