Migrating A Disk Array; Rebuilding A Disk Array - Promise Technology VTRAK E610f Product Manual

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3. Highlight Transport and press Enter.
4. Press Y to confirm.

Rebuilding a Disk Array

Before you can rebuild, you must have a replacement physical drive of adequate
capacity or your disk array. To rebuild a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter.
4. Highlight Rebuild and press Enter.
5. Specify the source and target physical drives.
6. Highlight Start and press Enter.

Migrating a Disk Array

In order to migrate RAID level, you may have to add physical drives. For more
information, see "RAID Level Migration" on page 252.
To migrate a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter.
4. Highlight Migration and press Enter.
5. Highlight the physical drive you want to add and press the spacebar to select
it.
Repeat this action to add more physical drives.
6. Highlight Save Settings and Continue and press Enter.
7. To change RAID level, Highlight the logical drive in the list and press Enter.
8. Highlight RAID Level and press the spacebar to toggle through the available
RAID levels.
9. Optional. If you want to increase capacity, highlight Expand Capacity and
press the spacebar to toggle to Yes.
• You can add physical drives to a RAID 50 or 60 array but you
cannot change the number of axles.
• If you add an odd number of physical drives to a RAID 10
array, it will become a RAID 1E array by default.
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