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  Dell EMC Server Administrator Storage Management   Version 10.2.0.0
Dell EMC Server Administrator Storage ManagementVersion 10.2.0.0
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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 Device Support
  • Storage Information And Global Tasks
  • Controllers
  • Support for PERC 9, PERC 10, and PERC 11 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
  • Identifying the series of your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
  • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Overview
  • Getting Started
  • Understanding RAID concepts
  • Quick Access To Storage Status And Tasks
  • PCI Express Solid-State Device Support
  • Storage Information And Global Tasks
  • Controllers
  • Support for PERC 9, PERC 10, and PERC 11 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 New Disk To The System
    • Replacing A Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts
    • Other Disk Procedures
    • Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties
    • Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks
    • Physical Disk Tasks
      • Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk
      • Removing Dead Segments
      • Preparing To Remove
      • Rebuilding Data
      • Canceling A Rebuild
      • 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
  • 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
  • Identifying the series of your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
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  2. Physical Disks Or Physical Devices
  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
  • Removing Dead Segments
  • Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare
  • Preparing To Remove
  • Setting Online And Offline
  • Rebuilding Data
  • Cancelling A Rebuild
  • 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