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Migrating a logical drive, Igrating, Ogical – Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head User Manual

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WebPAM PROe - System Configuration

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To migrate a logical drive:

1. Click the

Administration

tab.

2. Click the

Background Activities

icon.

The list of background activities appears.

3. Mouse-over

Migrate

and click the

Start

button.

4. In the

Select Disk Array

drop-down menu, choose the source disk array.

5. In the

Select Physical Drives

diagram, click the drives to add them to your array.

The ID numbers of the chosen drives appear in the field below the diagram.

6. Click the

Next

button.

7. Check the box next to the logical drive you want to modify.

8.

From the drop-down menu, choose a target RAID level.

The choice of RAID levels depends the number of physical drives in the disk array. See the Note below.

9. In the

Capacity

field, accept the current capacity.

Or check the E

xpand Capacity

box and enter a greater capacity and size in MB, GB or TB.

If there is capacity remaining, you can create an additional logical drive.

10. Click the

Next

button.

The logical drive ID numbers, with the original and target RAID levels and capacities are shown

11.

To accept the proposed target values, click the

Confirm

button.

Note

When you add physical drives to a RAID 10 array, it becomes a RAID 1E

array by default.

If you are adding an even number of physical drives to a RAID 10 array and

you want the target array to be RAID 10, you must specify RAID 10 under

RAID level.