Server Administrator Storage Management 8.2 User’s Guide

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

The Cancel Background Initialization task enables you to cancel a background initialization on a virtual disk.

On PERC controllers, background initialization of redundant virtual disks begins automatically after the virtual disk is created. Because the initialization is run in the background, other processes can continue while the initialization completes.

The background initialization of a redundant virtual disk prepares the virtual disk for parity information and improves write performance. It is important that the background initialization is allowed to run to completion. You can, however, cancel the background initialization. When you do so, the controller restarts the background initialization later.