Rebuilding A Disk Array - Promise Technology VTRAK M610p Product Manual

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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 47.

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 47.
To create a spare drive, see "Creating a Spare Drive" on page 112.
For more information, see "Hot Spare Drive(s)" on page 205.
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
If there are multiple disk arrays, choose the icon with the yellow !.
4.
From the dropdown menu the Background Activity tab, select Start Rebuild.
5.
Select the Source physical drive.
This is a remaining functional physical drive in the disk array.
6.
Select the Target physical drive.
This is the replacement physical drive.
7.
Click the Submit button.
The Disk Array Background Activity tab shows the rebuild progress on the
replacement (target) physical drive. Depending the size of the physical disk
involved, this process will take some time.
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