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VessRAID 1000f, 1000i, 1000s Product Manual
Viewing Current Background Activities
To view the current background activities:
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In Tree View, click the Subsystem
icon.
In Management View, click the Background Activities tab.
A list of current background activities appears, including:
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Rebuild
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PDM (Predictive Data Migration)
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Synchronization
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Redundancy Check
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Migration
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Transition
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Initialization
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Media Patrol
Making Background Activity Settings
To make settings for background activities:
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In Tree View, click the Subsystem
2.
In Management View, click the Background Activities tab and choose
Settings from the dropdown menu.
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Click the dropdown menu to choose a priority of Low, Medium, and High for
the following functions:
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icon.
Rebuild – Rebuilds the data from a failed drive in a disk array
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Synchronization – Checks the data integrity on disk arrays
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Initialization – Sets all data bits in the logical drive to zero
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Redundancy Check – Checks, reports and can correct data
inconsistencies in logical drives
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Migration – Change RAID level or add physical dries to disk arrays
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PDM – Looks for bad blocks the physical drives of disk arrays
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Transition – Returns a revertible spare drive to spare status
The rates are defined as follows:
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Low – Fewer resources to activity, more to data read/write.
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Medium – Balance of resources to activity and data read/write.
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High – More resources to activity, fewer to data read/write.
Highlight the following PDM trigger settings and type a value into the
corresponding field:
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