VessRAID Setup - Promise Technology, Inc.

VessRAID 1000i Series Product Manual
Enabling Media Patrol on a Disk Array
Media Patrol checks the magnetic media on physical drives.
To enable or disable Media Patrol:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Media Patrol and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and
Disable.
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.
Enabling PDM on a Disk Array
This function enables and disables Predictive Data Migration (PDM).
To enable or disable PDM:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight PDM and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and
Disable.
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.
See “Running PDM” on page 166.
Preparing the Disk Array for Transport
To run the Transport function on a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Transport and press Enter.
4. Press Y to confirm.
Rebuilding a Disk Array
Before you can rebuild, you must have a replacement physical drive of adequate
capacity or your disk array. To rebuild a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter.
4. Highlight Rebuild and press Enter.
5. Specify the source and target physical drives.
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