Nvidia MS-7374 Using the Storage Page, Create an Array, Delete an Array, Rebuild an Array, B-12

MS-7374 Mainboard

Using the Storage Page

From the Storage page, you can accomplish the following tasks:

•Create an Array

•Delete an Array

•Rebuild an Array

•Synchronize an Array

•Designate a Spare Disk

•Remove a Spare

•Migrate an Array

•View Storage Information

Create an Array

This option is available only if there are free disks that are RAID-enabled.

Click Create array to start the Create Array Wizard and then follow the instructions. You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with step-by-step instructions.

Delete an Array

This option is available only if RAID arrays have been created.

Click Delete array to start the Delete Array Wizard and then follow instructions. You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with step-by-step instructions.

Rebuild an Array

About Rebuilding

Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array. For example, if you have a three disk RAID 5 array and one of the drives fails, you will need to replace the failed drive with a new one, and rebuild the array to re- generate the lost data on the newly added drive.

Rebuilding applies only to fault-tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5 Arrays .

Instructions

Click Rebuild array to start the Rebuild Create Array Wizard and then follow the instructions.

You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with step-by-step instructions.

The rebuilding process takes some time to complete, and occurs in the background so as not to affect the performance of the system.

Synchronize an Array

Synchronizing an array will force a rebuild of redundancy or parity. The operation applies to any fault-tolerant array such as RAID 1, 0+1 and RAID 5.

Click Synchronize array to start the Synchronize Array Wizard and then follow instructions.

You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with step-by-step instructions.

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