Dell EMC H745P MX - Creating Profile Based Virtual Disk

Virtual disk parameters Description
NOTE: Allowed characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscore (_),
and hyphen (-) only.
Virtual Disk Size Displays the maximum capacity available for the virtual disk.
Virtual Disk Size Unit Displays the virtual disk storage space in megabytes, gigabytes,
and terabytes.
Strip Element Size Allows you to select the strip element size. The disk striping
involves partitioning each physical disk storage space in stripes of
the following sizes: 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, and 1 MB.
By default, the strip element size is set to 256 KB.
Read Policy Displays the controller read policy. You can set the read policy to:
• No Read Ahead — species that the controller does not use
read ahead for the current virtual disk.
• Read Ahead — species that the controller uses Read-Ahead
for the current virtual disk. Read-Ahead capability allows the
controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and
store the additional data in the cache memory, anticipating
that the data is required soon.
By default, the read cache policy is set to Read Ahead.
Write Policy Displays the controller write cache policy. You can set the write
policy to:
• Write through — the controller sends a data transfer
completion signal to the host when the disk subsystem has
received all the data in a transaction.
• Write back — the controller sends a data transfer completion
signal to the host when the controller cache has received all
the data in a transaction.
By default, the write policy is set to Write Back.
Disk Cache Allows you to set the disk cache policy to Default, Enable, or
Disable.
By default, the disk cache is set to Default.
Default Initialization Displays the virtual disk initialization options. You can set the
Default Initialization to:
• No — The virtual disk is not initialized.
• Fast — The rst 8 MB of the virtual disk is initialized.
• Full — The entire virtual disk is initialized.
For more information, see Virtual disk initialization.
By default, the default initialization is set to No.
Creating prole based virtual disk
1 Enter the Dell PERC 10 Conguration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 conguration utility.
2 Click Main Menu > Conguration Management > Creating Prole Based Virtual Disk.
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HII conguration utility