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VessRAID 1000f, 1000i, 1000s Product Manual
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2. Click the Disk Arrays icon.
3. Click the Disk Array icon.
If there are multiple disk arrays, choose the icon with the yellow !.
4. From the dropdown menu the Background Activity tab, choose Start
Rebuild.
5. Select the Source physical drive.
This is a remaining functional physical drive in the disk array.
6. Select the Target physical drive.
This is the replacement physical drive. The available drives are either HDD
or SSD, depending on the type of drives in the array.
7. Click the Submit button.
The Disk Array Background Activity tab shows the rebuild progress on the
replacement (target) physical drive. Depending the size of the physical disk
involved, this process will take some time.
To view more information, click the Rebuild on PDx link.
To set Rebuild priority, see “Making Background Activity Settings” on page 71.
Running Media Patrol on a Disk Array
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 71 and “Running PDM” on page 73.
You can schedule Media Patrol to run automatically, see “Scheduling an Activity”
on page 74.
To start Media Patrol:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Disk Arrays icon.
3. Click the Disk Array icon.
4. From the dropdown menu the Background Activities tab, choose Start Media
Patrol.
5. Click the Start button.