Manual pdm – Promise Technology VTrak 15110 User Manual

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Chapter 5: Management with the CLU

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Available free Physical Drive(s):
1
2
7

Choose the free Physical Drive for rebuilding>2
Rebuild Disk Array 1 on Physical Drive 2 now(y/n)?>y

3.

Choose the ID number of a free physical drive to rebuild your logical drive
and press Enter.
Press Y and Enter to confirm.

The Screen returns to the Maintenance menu.

If the Maintenance Activity Monitor is enabled, you can watch the Rebuild
progress on your monitor.

Manual PDM

Preventive Data Migration (PDM) refers to a feature that monitors disk drives and
replaces an unhealthy disk drive before the logical drive goes critical. PDM can
run automatically. See page 169.

PDM for Logical Drive allows you to replace a suspect disk drive manually, while
keeping the disk array functional and available.

1.

Press 4 and Enter to use PDM on a disk array.

**************PDM for Disk Array**************
Id

Disk Array Name

Mode

Size

---------------------------------------------------------------
1

Daniels

RAID5

237 GB

2 Kirts

RAID3

107

GB

Select the LD Logical Drive ID for PDM
Press R to return after finished>2

2.

Choose the ID number of the logical drive for PDM and press Enter.
A list of disk array member disks appears beside the prompt.

Enter the unhealthy PD ID(1,5,6)>6

Enter the spare PD ID(2,3,7)>7

Start PDM for Logical Drive 1 (y/n)?>y

3.

Choose the ID number of the unhealthy disk (physical) and press Enter.
A list of available spare disks appears beside the prompt.

4.

Choose the ID number of the spare disk (physical drive) and press Enter.

5.

Press Y and Enter to confirm.

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