Performing Drive Actions; Downing A Drive - D-Link DSN-1100 X Stack User Manual

4.2 Performing Drive Actions

When you select a drive in the Main Display, you can use the Drive Actions panel to
perform the following activities:
Down a drive. See section 4.2.1.
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Reserve spare drives. See section 4.2.2.
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Show advanced extents in the Extents tab. See section 4.3.3.
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4.2.1 Downing a Drive

The xStack Storage Management Center provides a Down Drive feature that lets you
remove a drive from the system in an orderly way. Using this feature, you can, for
example, replace a smaller drive with a larger drive.
The Down Drive operation requires all space used on the selected drive to be relocated
onto different drives. The Down Drive feature handles this requirement by performing a
reconfigure task on every volume that uses space on the drive. This operation is
conducted for any type of volume, including redundant and non-redundant
organizations.
To down a drive:
1. In the Physical Storage View, select a drive in the Main Display.
2. Perform one of the following steps:
On the Storage menu, click Down Drive.
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Click Down Drive in the Drive Actions panel.
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Press the right mouse button and click Down Drive on the shortcut menu.
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Any of these steps displays the message inFigure 4-2.
3. Click OK in the box to remove the message.
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Figure 4-2. Down Drive Started Message
If you down a drive, you can use the Schedule tab in the System
Administration View to view, suspend, or delete this action (see section
5.2.2).
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