ATTO Technology FastStream SC 5700 - Manual (Page 16)

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ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream SC Installation and Operation Manual
3.0 Ensure Drive Integrity
The ATTO FastStream initialize and verify drive feature discovers and re-maps bad sectors on drives providing
reliable media for your RAID groups.
Before creating any RAID group you should initialize
and verify the drives selected to be in the RAID group
to ensure drive integrity. When selected, the
FastStream writes a pattern to the entire drive,
verifying the drive’s readiness and reliability.
CAUTION CAUTION
Selecting Drive Initialization causes all
previous storage data on the drive to be
erased. Make sure all of your information is
backed up before initializing drives.
During initialization and verification, the FastStream
collects performance measurements. Performance
data is available once initialization begins. You may
view it from the
Drive Performance and Health
page accessible from the Diagnostics menu. This
performance data is lost when the appliance is
powered off.
If you do not want to initialize or verify drives now,
continue on to
Configure Storage into RAID Groups
on page 13.
You may check drive integrity after you have created
RAID groups on drives in RAID groups or drives which
you wish to add to your FastStream configuring using
the initialize and verify procedure or using a read-only
scan of drives.
The read-only drive test performs a non-destructive
scan over the entire surface of each drive to identify
bad areas of disk drives and determine read
performance. It may be run while data is passing
through the FastStream.
Running this test may negatively impact performance.
Once the read-only test has completed, system
operation returns to normal.
Before creating RAID groups
1 If you are not already in the ExpressNAV
Storage Manager, type the IP address of your
appliance in a standard browser. On the splash
screen, click
Enter Here. In the box provided,
type in your user name and password, and click
OK.
2 Select Initialize and Verify Drives.
3 Click Next.
4 Select Initialize and Verify Drives.
All eligible drives are highlighted in green; the
system only initializes highlighted drives.
5 Click Commit.
CAUTION CAUTION
Do not restart the FastStream or
disconnect or power cycle drives during
Drive Initialization and Verification or you
must start the verification process from the
beginning.
6 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.
7 When the process is complete, the Health and
Status Monitor page appears.
The drive(s) selected are now initialized and verified.
All data on the highlighted drives has been erased and
you may continue with
Configure Storage into RAID
Groups on page 13.