VTrak M610p Product Manual
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Managing Background Activity
Background activity refers to any of several functions that take place in the
background while normal operation of the VTrak continues.
Background activities work in conjunction with disk arrays and logical drives. See
“Managing Disk Arrays” on page 133 and “Managing Logical Drives” on page 144
for more information about how and when to use background activities.
Background Activity Management includes the following functions:
•
Viewing Current Background Activities (page 150)
•
Making Background Activity Settings (page 150)
Viewing Current Background Activities
From the Main Menu, highlight
Background Activity
and press Enter. A count of
current background activities appears, including:
•
Rebuild
•
PDM – Predictive Data Migration
•
Synchronization
•
Redundancy Check
•
Migration
•
Transition
•
Initialization
•
Media Patrol
Making Background Activity Settings
1.
From the Main Menu, highlight
Background Activity
and press Enter.
2.
Highlight
Background Activity Settings
and press Enter.
3.
Highlight following and press the spacebar to toggle between
Enabled
and
Disabled
.
•
Media Patrol – Checks the magnetic media on physical drives
•
Auto Rebuild – If there is a spare drive of adequate capacity, a critical
disk array will begin to rebuild automatically. If not spare drive is
available, the disk array will begin to rebuild as soon as you replace the
failed physical drive with an unconfigured physical drive of equal or
greater size.
4.
Highlight following and press the spacebar to toggle through
Low
,
Medium
,
and
High
rates:
•
Rebuild – Checks the data integrity on disk arrays
•
Migration – Change RAID level or add physical dries to disk arrays
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