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Accusys ExaRAID GUI User Manual

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Introduction

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• Support intelligent disk I/O scheduling

• Selective performance profile: AV streaming, Max IOPS, and Max

throughput

RAID Reconfiguration Utilities

• Online disk group expansion

• Online RAID level migration

• Online stripe size migration

• Online simultaneous execution of the operations above

• Online disk group defragmentation for free space consolidation

• Online simultaneous disk group expansion and defragmentation

• Online logical disk capacity expansion

• Online logical disk capacity shrink

• Support rebuild-first policy for early recovery from RAID degradation

Data Integrity Maintenance Utilities

• Online logical disk parity regeneration

• Online disk scrubbing (a.k.a. media scan or patrol read)

• Online parity check and recovery

• Online disk cloning and replacement, with automatic resuming cloning

• Support skipping cloned sectors when rebuilding partially cloned disks

Background Task Management

• Background task progress monitoring

• Support one-time or periodic scheduling of maintenance tasks

• Support priority control for different types of background tasks, like

rebuilding

• Support manual abort background tasks

• Support background task roaming

• Support automatic resuming tasks when the system restarts

• Support early notification of task completion

Array Roaming and Recovery

• Support Configuration on disk (COD) with unique ID for each disk drive

• Support drive traveling

• Support online and offline array roaming

• Support automatic and manual roaming conflict resolution