Rebuilding Virtual
Disk
This topic describes the procedure to manually rebuild a degraded virtual disk by using the Marvell BIOS setup utility. This is applicable to the RAID 1 virtual disk.
Important
The rebuild process is both initiated and completed in the Marvell BIOS setup. The Mar- vell RAID Utility (MRU), which runs in as OS environment, cannot be used to either initi- ate, resume, or complete the rebuild process Spare physical disks are not supported.
1.When a virtual disk is degraded, the “Status” of a virtual disk is changed from Func- tional
to Degrade.
2.Replace the faulty physical disk with an identical physical disk. (Note: If an identi- cal disk is unavailable, use a replacement physical disk of larger size or one with a slightly smaller size as determined the Gigabyte Rounding setting for the virtual disk.) The BIOS detects the new physical disk and lists the device under “Free Physical Disks” in the [Topology] pane.
3.In the [Topology] pane, scroll to “Virtual Disk” (VD 0: XXXX), and press Enter to select. A menu
Marvell BIOS Setup (c) xxxx Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
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Topology
HBA 0: Marvell 0
Virtual Disks
VD 0: MRAID1 
PD 8: ST3750330MS[Delete]
Free Physical Disks [Rebuild]
PD 0: ST3750XXX
Information |
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ID | : | 0 |
Namd | : | MRAID1 |
Status | : | Degrade |
Stripe Size | : | 64K |
RAID Mode | : | RAID1 |
Size | : | 953344MB |
BGA Status | : | N/A |
Number of PDs | : | 2 |
Members | : | 0 8 |
4.Scroll through the list of free disks, and press Space to select a replacement physi- cal disk. Press Enter to continue.
5.Press Y to confirm the request when prompted Do you want to rebuild with selected physical
disk on this vd?.
6.The status of the rebuild process is reflected in the properties of the virtual disk.
