Initializing Virtual Drives; Slow Initialization - Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series User Manual

Initializing virtual drives

This section describes how to initialize virtual drives.
Note: Initializing virtual drives will corrupt data on the drives, including
virtual drive information, which is required for OS operation. Make sure to
back up necessary data before initialization.
Note:
• Virtual drives in consistency check or rebuild cannot be initialized. When
each processing is complete, initialize the virtual drive.
• You cannot work on the virtual drives in initialization, such as OS
installation. Wait for initialization to complete.

Slow initialization

This subsection describes how to execute initialization on all areas of virtual
drives.
1 Select Virtual Drive Management from the Main menu and press
.
Enter.
2 Select a virtual drive to initialize and press Enter.
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3 Select Operation and press Enter.
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4 Select Slow initialization and press Enter.
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5 Select Go and press Enter.
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6 The following Warning appears.
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Select Confirm and press Space.
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