Promise Technology M500p, M500i, M500f, M300p, M300i Disk Array Background Activity, Manual Rebuild

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Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PROe

Manual Rebuild

If a physical drive has failed, identify and replace the drive, then rebuild the disk array as described below:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click on the Disk Arrays icon.

3.Click on the Disk Array icon.

If there are multiple disk arrays, choose the icon with the yellow !.

4.Click on the Background Activities tab in Management View.

5.Click the dropdown menu on the Background Activity tab and select Start Rebuild.

6.Select the Source physical drive.

This is a remaining functional physical drive in the disk array.

7.Select the Target physical drive.

This is the replacement physical drive.

8.Click the Submit button.

The Disk Array Background Activity tab will show the rebuild on the replacement (target) physical drive. Depending on the size of the physical disk involved, this process will take some time.

To view more information, click on the Rebuild on PDx link.

To set Rebuild priority, see “Change Background Settings” on page 71.

Disk Array Background Activity

The Disk Array–Background Activity tab provides information about functions that run in the background on your subsystem:

Disk array Migration

Disk array Rebuild

Predictive Data Migration (PDM)

Spare drive Transition

Start Background Function

To start a background function:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click on the Disk Arrays icon.

3.Click on the Disk Array icon.

4.Click the Background Activities tab in Management view.

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Promise Technology M500p, M500i, M500f, M300p, M300i, M300f, M200i, M200p, M200f Disk Array Background Activity, Manual Rebuild