# Behavior of Virtual Drive Operations on VMware

On the LSA client, when you select multiple virtual drives on which to perform operations such as Drive Initialization, Consistency Check, Drive Erase, and so on, the VMware ESXi Server might time out, resulting in a delay of the operation that is being performed.

Because the requested operations are process-intensive and take a long time to complete, the LSA GUI can transition into an idle state until either the requested operation completes or the VMware ESXi Server times out. During this state (idle state of LSA GUI), you cannot perform any other action on the LSA GUI.

While the LSA client is processing the requested operation in the background and is taking more than the usual time to complete, the LSA GUI transitions in to an idle state without letting you perform any other operation; you might assume that the LSA GUI has hung up because you cannot see what is happening in the background.

You can overcome this problem by enabling the Schedule Panel feature. The following are some of the advantages of enabling the Schedule Panel feature:

- When performing any process-intensive operations on multiple virtual drives such as Drive Initialization, Consistency Check, Drive Erase, and so on, a Schedule Panel screen is displayed, which shows the Target ID of the virtual drive and the status of the operation that is being performed.

- This Schedule Panel screen is updated on completion of each process, indicating whether the request is being processed or not, in a real time.

- The Close button is enabled on the Schedule Panel screen only when all the operations that are being performed are complete, allowing you to close the Schedule Panel screen only when the button is enabled.

- Until the operations are complete, you cannot perform any other action on the LSA GUI.

- Enabling the Schedule Panel Feature
- Disabling the Schedule Panel Feature
- Modifying the Time Limit of the Schedule Panel

Parent topic: Managing Virtual Drives