Instruction manual

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FastStream process: add or remove Hot Spares
For an explanation of Hot Spares, refer to Use
Hot Spares on page 13.
1 Follow the instructions in Preliminary steps on
page 21.
2The Manage menu appears. Select the
FastStream drop down arrow.
3 Select the Add/Remove Hot Spares button.
4 Click Next
5 Select the drive(s) you want to add or remove
from the Hot Spare pool by clicking on the
boxes representing those drives.
6 When you have completed your changes, click
Commit.
7 A warning box appears. In the warning box,
verify that you want to complete the
configuration by clicking on Yes. Clicking on No
ends the procedure without making a change.
8 When the process is complete, the Health and
Status Monitor screen appears
Note
For System Configuration and Set Up
Error Notification
, refer to Optional
changes to system configurations on page
15 and
Phone home: E-mail messages
provide error notification on page 18
Update RAID configuration data
If you move single drives between devices
without erasing the drives, you may want to clean
stale RAID configuration data from the drives,
permanently removing the drive from the RAID
group. Drives must belong to a RAID group now
or have once belonged to a RAID group and are
labeled Replaced after system scans.
CAUTIONCAUTION
Continue with extreme caution: data is lost
on the drive when it is cleaned of RAID
information.
1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV
interface, type the IP address of your appliance,
as found in Use the ExpressNAV interface
on
page 27, in a standard browser, click Enter
Here and type in your user name and
password.
2 Click the Diagnostics button on the Menu
Items list on the left hand side of the
ExpressNAV interface.
3 Click in the Clean RAID Configuration data
radio button.
4 Click Next
5 Click on the drives you wish to update; the
drives are highlighted.
6 Click on Commit
7 A warning box appears. In the warning box,
verify that you want to complete the
configuration by clicking on Yes. Clicking on No
ends the procedure without making a change.
8 When the process is complete, the Health and
Status Monitor screen appears
Note
To clean Hot Spare information from a drive,
use
FastStream process: add or remove Hot
Spares on page 23.