Changing Media Scan Settings - Dell PowerVault MD3220 Owner's Manual

• Redundancy mismatches error—The first 10 redundancy mismatches that
are found on the virtual disk are reported to the event log.
• Unfixable error—Data could not be read and parity or redundancy
information could not be used to regenerate the data. For example,
redundancy information cannot be used to reconstruct the data on a
degraded virtual disk. The error is reported to the event log.
For more information, see the PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager
online help topics.

Changing Media Scan Settings

To change the media scan settings:
1 In the AMW, select the Logical tab and select any virtual disk.
2 Select Virtual Disk Change Media Scan Settings.
The Change Media Scan Settings window is displayed.
3 Deselect Suspend media scan if selected.
4 In Scan duration, enter or select the duration (in days) for the media scan.
The media scan duration specifies the number of days for which the media
scan runs on the selected virtual disks.
5 To disable media scans on an individual virtual disk, select the virtual disk
in the Select virtual disks to scan area, and deselect Scan selected virtual
disks.
6 To enable media scans on an individual virtual disk, select the virtual disk
in the Select virtual disks to scan area, and select Scan selected virtual
disks.
7 To enable or disable the consistency check, select either With consistency
check or Without consistency check.
NOTE:
disk, or a RAID Level 6 virtual disk and checks the consistency information for
each block. A consistency check compares data blocks on RAID Level 1
mirrored physical disks. RAID Level 0 virtual disks have no data consistency.
8 Click OK.
A consistency check scans the data blocks in a RAID Level 5 virtual
Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
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