Rebuilding A Disk Array - Promise Technology VTRAK E610f Product Manual

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4. From the dropdown menu the Background Activities tab, select Start
Migration.
5. Highlight physical drives you want in the disk array from the Available list and
press the >> button to move them to the Selected list.
You can also double-click them to move them.
6. When you are done, click the Next button.
7. Select a new RAID Level, if desired.
8. To expand the disk array's capacity, check the Expand Capacity box.
9. If you checked the Expand Capacity box, enter a number into the Capacity
field and select the appropriate unit of measure (MB, GB, TB).
10. Under Capacity Usage, highlight the logical drive whose RAID level you want
to change or whose capacity you want to expand.
11. Click the Update button.
The logical drive changes to reflect your choices.
12. Update other logical drives using the same method.
13. When you are done making the changes, click the Next button.
14. Click the Submit button to begin Migration.
To set Migration priority, see "Making Background Activity Settings" on page 66.

Rebuilding a Disk Array

When you rebuild a disk array, you are actually rebuilding the data on a
replacement physical drive.
Rebuilding Automatically
Normally, a disk array would rebuild itself using a hot disk drive, after going
Critical. However, if the Auto Rebuild function is disabled or no spare drives are
available, you must initiate the procedure.
To enable Auto Rebuild, see "Making Background Activity Settings" on page 66.
To create a spare drive, see "Creating a Spare Drive" on page 142.
For more information, see "Hot Spare Drive(s)" on page 251.
Rebuilding Manually
If a physical drive has failed, identify and replace the drive, then rebuild the disk
array as described below:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Disk Arrays
3. Click the Disk Array
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