ATTO Technology FastStream VT 5300 Installation And Operation Manual page 28

CAUTION CAUTION
During this procedure, do not power down
the host or the ATTO FastStream VT until
the Health and Status Monitor page
displays. Any interruption of power while
storage is being reorganized results in the
loss of data.
8 In the warning box, verify that you want to add
the drives to the RAID group by clicking on Yes.
Clicking on No ends the procedure without
making a change.
9 The Health and Status Monitor page appears.
Rebuild RAID groups
If you receive an E-mail notification from the
FastStream VT as set up previously using the
Phone Home error notification (refer to
home: E-mail messages
realize a drive has failed, and you do not have
available drives in the Hot Spares pool (refer to
Use Hot Spares on page 11), follow this
procedure to replace the failed drive and manually
begin a rebuild operation. If you have available
drives in the Hot Spare pool, any failed drive is
replaced by a Hot Spare automatically.
1 Follow Preliminary steps
on the Diagnostics button.
2 The Diagnostics page appears. Click on
Identify Drive.
3 Click Next
4 Click on the degraded drive.
5 Click Commit
6 The LED on the degraded drive flashes.
FastStream operations: add or remove Hot Spares
For an explanation of Hot Spares, refer to
Hot Spares on page 11.
1 Follow Preliminary steps
on the Manage button.
2 The Manage VTL page appears. Click on the
FastStream drop down arrow.
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on page 18) or otherwise
on page 21 and click
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on page 21 and click
Note
The status of a drive which cannot be
accessed is displayed as Unavailable. To
identify this drive, observe the access lights for
all drives in the RAID group during disk
access: if the LED is not flashing on a drive, it
is the unavailable drive.
7 When you have identified the failed drive, select
the drive in the Identify Drive box to stop the
LED flash.
Note
It is best practice to stop drive activity while
changing drives.
8 Remove the failed drive from the array.
9 Insert the new drive into the array.
10 In the ExpressNAV interface, click the Manage
button.
11 Click the arrow next to RAID Groups.
12 Select Rebuild RAID Groups.
13 Click Next.
14 At the Step 1: Select a RAID group, select
Degraded Drives from the drop down menu.
15 Degraded drives are listed under Step 2:
select a RAID group member. Click on the
degraded drive to rebuild. The graphic changes
color.
16 Under Step 3: select a replacement drive,
select the new drive. The graphic changes
color.
17 Click Commit
18 In the warning box, verify that you want to
rebuild the RAID group by clicking on Yes.
Clicking on No ends the procedure without
making a change.
19 When the procedure is complete, the RAID
Group Rebuild page appears.
3 Select the Add/Remove Hot Spares button.