Promise Technology VTRAK M210i, Product Manual

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Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PROe
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• Rebuilding – This condition is temporary. When a physical drive has been
replaced, the logical drive automatically begins rebuilding in order to restore
redundancy (fault tolerance). When a logical drive is rebuilding, it will
function and your data is available. However, access will be slower due to
the rebuilding operation.
• Transport Ready – After you perform a successful Prepare for Transport
operation, this condition means you can remove the physical drives of this
disk array and move them to another enclosure or different drive slots. After
you relocate the physical drives, the disk array status will show OK.
Adjustable Items
• Alias – Optional.
• Media Patrol – Enabled or disabled.
• PDM – Enabled or disabled.
See “Making Disk Array Settings” on page 111.
Making Disk Array Settings
To make Disk Array settings:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Disk Arrays icon.
3. Click the Disk Array icon.
4. Click the Settings tab in Management View.
5. Optional. Enter an alias in the Disk Array Alias field.
Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words,
and underscore. An alias is optional.
6. To enable Media Patrol support, check the Media Patrol box.
7. To enable PDM support, check the PDM box.
8. Click the Submit button.
Creating a Logical Drive
When you create a disk array, you automatically create one logical drive also. If
the initial logical drive used less than the full capacity of the disk array, you can
create additional logical drives from the same disk array.
To create a logical drive:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Disk Arrays icon.