Promise Technology VessRAID 1720i, Product Manual

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Chapter 5: Management with the CLU
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The available drives are either HDD or SSD, depending on the type of drives
in the array.
6. Highlight Start and press Enter.
Migrating a Disk Array
In order to migrate RAID level, you may have to add physical drives. For more
information, see “RAID Level Migration” on page 264.
To migrate 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 Migration and press Enter.
5. Highlight the physical drive you want to add and press the spacebar to
choose it.
The available drives are either HDD or SSD, depending on the type of drives
in the array.
Repeat this action to add more physical drives.
6. Highlight Save Settings and Continue and press Enter.
7. To change RAID level, Highlight the logical drive in the list and press Enter.
8. Highlight RAID Level and press the spacebar to toggle through the available
RAID levels.
9. Optional. If you want to increase capacity, highlight Expand Capacity and
press the spacebar to toggle to Yes.
10. Optional. If you want to increase capacity, highlight Capacity, press the
backspace key to erase the current logical drive capacity and type in the new
value.
The new value must be equal or larger than the current capacity.
11. Highlight Save Logical Drive and press Enter.
The screen returns to Disk Array Migration Logical Drives.
12. Highlight Complete Disk Array Migration and press Enter.
13. In the confirmation message, press Y to confirm.
Notes
• You can add physical drives to a RAID 50 or 60 array but you
cannot change the number of axles.
• If you add an odd number of physical drives to a RAID 10
array, it will become a RAID 1E array by default.