Expanding A Raid; Migrating A Raid - Thecus N7700 User Manual

5. Tick the checkboxes under the "member" heading of the hard disks you
wish to use to create a RAID.
6. Specify a stripe size — 64K is the default setting.
7. Specify the percentage allocated for user data. The remaining space will
be made available for iSCSI target.
8. Selected the file system you like to have for this RAID volume.
NOTE
9. Press Apply to build the RAID storage volume.
NOTE
WARNING
With a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volume, you can also add a spare
disk after the RAID is created. See Chapter 7: Tips and Tricks >
Spare Disk for details.

Expanding a RAID

To expand a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volume, follow the steps below:
1. Replace one of the hard drives in the RAID volume and allow it to
automatically rebuild.
2. Once rebuilt, you can continue to replace any remaining disks in the RAID
array.
3. When you are done replacing hard drives, log on to Web Management.
Navigate to Storage > RAID to open the RAID List screen.
4. On the RAID List screen, select the RAID volume by clicking on its radio
button, and click RAID Config to open the RAID Configuration screen.
5. On the RAID Configuration screen, click Expand.

Migrating a RAID

Once a RAID volume has been created, you
may want to move it to other physical drives
or change the RAID array all together. To
migrate a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 5
volume, follow the steps below:
1. From the RAID Configuration screen,
click Migrate RAID.
Select ZFS file system while snapshot is needed It is only one ZFS file
system allowed to be created per system.
ZFS file system is only accessible by CIFS/SMB, not for AFP and NFS
users.
Building a RAID storage space may take time, dep
hard drives and RAID mode.
Creating RAID destroys all data in the current RAID volume. The data is
unrecoverable.
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