Dell MD3220, MD3200 owner manual RAID Background Operations Priority, Disk Group Defragmentation

Disk Group Defragmentation

Defragmenting consolidates the free capacity in the disk group into one contiguous area. Defragmentation does not change the way in which the data is stored on the virtual disks.

Disk Group Operations Limit

The maximum number of active, concurrent disk group processes per installed RAID controller module is one. This limit is applied to the following disk group processes:

•Virtual disk RAID level migration

•Segment size migration

•Virtual disk capacity expansion

•Disk group expansion

•Disk group defragmentation

If a redundant RAID controller module fails with an existing disk group process, the process on the failed controller is transferred to the peer controller. A transferred process is placed in a suspended state if there is an active disk group process on the peer controller. The suspended processes are resumed when the active process on the peer controller completes or is stopped.

NOTE: If you try to start a disk group process on a controller that does not have an existing active process, the start attempt fails if the first virtual disk in the disk group is owned by the other controller and there is an active process on the other controller.

RAID Background Operations Priority

The storage array supports a common configurable priority for the following RAID operations:

•Background initialization

•Rebuild

•Copy back

•Virtual disk capacity expansion

•Raid level migration

Planning: MD3200 Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts

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