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Dell PowerVault MD 32XX/36XX Series Storage Arrays CLI Guide

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Initializing A Virtual Disk

  • CAUTION: When you initialize a virtual disk, all data on the virtual disk and all information about the virtual disk are erased.
A virtual disk is automatically initialized when you first create it. If the virtual disk starts exhibiting failures, you might be required to re-initialize the virtual disk to correct the failure condition.
The initialization process cannot be cancelled once it has begun. This option cannot be used if any modification operations are in progress on the virtual disk or disk group. To initialize a virtual disk, run the following command: 
start virtualDisk [
                                    virtualDiskName] initialize
where, virtualDiskName is the identifier for the virtual disk.
  • NOTE: Initializing a thin virtual disk may take an extremely long time.

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