Administrator Guide

Cancel a RAID Rebalance
Cancel a RAID rebalance to stop an on-going RAID rebalance. Cancelling a RAID rebalance does not cancel the need to rebalance. You will
still be prompted to rebalance RAID.
About this task
NOTE: The RAID rebalance stops after completing the current rebalance pass.
Steps
1 If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane.
2 From the STORAGE menu, select Disks.
The Disks view is displayed.
3 Click Rebalance RAID.
The RAID Rebalance dialog box opens.
4 Click Stop Rebalancing. After rebalance stops, a conrmation dialog box opens.
5 Click OK.
Schedule a RAID Rebalance
Schedule a RAID rebalance to rebuild the data on all of the disks at a later date.
1 If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane.
2 From the STORAGE menu, select Disks.
The Disks view is displayed.
3 Click Rebalance RAID.
The RAID Rebalance dialog box opens. If a RAID rebalance is needed, the dialog box shows RAID rebalance options. If a RAID
rebalance is needed, the dialog box shows RAID rebalance options.
4 Select Schedule RAID rebalance.
5 Select a date and time.
6 Click OK.
Check the Status of a RAID Rebalance
The RAID Rebalance displays the status of an in-progress RAID rebalance and indicates whether a rebalance is needed.
1 If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane.
2 From the STORAGE menu, select Disks.
The Disks view is displayed.
3 Click Rebalance RAID.
The RAID Rebalance dialog box shows the status of a RAID rebalance.
4 Click OK.
Managing Storage Types
Storage Types determine how Data Progression moves data within a disk folder. Each disk folder has a corresponding Storage Type.
NOTE
: Modifying tier redundancy requires a RAID rebalance to be completed, and should not be performed unless sucient free
disk space is available within the disk folder.
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