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VTrak M610p Product Manual
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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.
6. Click the Submit button to save your settings.
Running Background Activities
To run a background activity from the Background Activities tab:
1. In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.
2. In Management View, click the Background Activities tab and select one of
the following from the dropdown menu.
• Media Patrol – See “Running Media Patrol” on page 48
• Rebuild – See “Rebuilding a Disk Array” on page 101
• PDM – See “Running PDM” on page 48
• Transition – See “Transitioning a Disk Array” on page 103
• Initialization – See “Initializing a Logical Drive” on page 107
• Redundancy Check – See “Running Redundancy Check” on page 108
3. In the next screen, make the choices as requested.
4. Click the Start button.
Running Media Patrol
Media Patrol checks the magnetic media on physical drives. When it finds the
specified number of bad blocks, it will trigger PDM. See “Making Background
Activity Settings” on page 47 and “Running PDM” on page 48.
You can schedule Media Patrol to run automatically, see “Scheduling an Activity”
on page 49.
To run Media Patrol:
1. In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.
2. From the dropdown menu on the Background Activities tab, select Start
Media Patrol .
3. In the next screen, click the Start button.
Running PDM
Predictive Data Migration (PDM) migrates data from the suspect physical drive to
a spare disk drive, similar to Rebuilding. But unlike Rebuilding, PDM acts
before
the disk drive fails and your Logical Drive goes Critical.
You an also run PDM on a specific disk array, see “Running PDM on a Disk
Array” on page 102.