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Marvell Storage Utility
User Manual for 88SE91xx
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Copyright © 2010 Marvell CONFIDENTIAL Doc No. MV-S800768-00 Rev. -
October 22, 2010 Document Classification: Proprietary
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Auto-Rebuild When enabled, degraded virtual disks are automatically rebuilt if a
global spare drive of suitable size is available.
Related terms: Rebuild, Spare, Global Spare Drive, Hot Spare, Hot
Swap, Gigabyte Rounding.
Background
Initialization
Refers to Full Initialization running as a background activity.
BBU Abbreviation for Battery Backup Unit.
BGA Abbreviation for Background Activity.
BIOS POST BIOS Power-On Self Test.
This is a pre-boot diagnostic test procedure that checks if the required
hardware is present and functioning correctly. The system typically
continues to boot even if errors are encountered (unless they are fatal
errors).
CLI Command Line Interface
Consistency
Check
Consistency Check checks and reports the integrity of parity/mirror
data on the virtual disk.
Notes:
• Not applicable to RAID 0 (Striping) virtual disk or JBOD.
• Consistency Check can be performed only on fully-initialized virtual disks.
• Consistency errors are recorded in the Event Logs.
• Consistency Check is recommended as a regular maintenance procedure for
virtual disks.
• Aside from regular maintenance runs, also run Consistency Check when a
virtual disk is not performing as expected.
Related terms: Full Initialization, Consistency Fix, Synchronization
Rate.