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The media scan duration specifies the number of days for which the media scan runs on the selected virtual disks.

5To 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.

6To 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.

7To enable or disable the consistency check, select either With consistency check or Without consistency check.

NOTE: A consistency check scans the data blocks in a RAID level 5 virtual 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.

8Click OK.

Suspending the Media Scan

You cannot perform a media scan while performing another long-running operation on the disk drive such as reconstruction, copy-back, reconfiguration, virtual disk initialization, or immediate availability formatting. If you want to perform another long-running operation, you must suspend the media scan.

NOTE: A background media scan is the lowest priority of the long-running operations.

To suspend a media scan:

1In the AMW, select the Logical tab and select any virtual disk.

2Select Virtual Disk→ Change→ Media Scan Settings. The Change Media Scan Settings window is displayed.

3Select Suspend media scan.

NOTE: This applies to all the virtual disks on the disk group.

4Click OK.

Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks

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