Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head - Manual (Page 477)

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Transition is the process of replacing a revertible spare drive that is currently part of a disk array with an
unconfigured physical drive or a non-revertible spare drive. For more information, see “Transition” on page 193.
In order to run Transition:
• The spare drive must be Revertible.
• You must have an unconfigured physical drive of the same or larger capacity to replace the spare drive.
To run Transition on a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter .
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter .
4. Highlight Transition and press Enter .
Default source and target drives are shown with possible alternative choices.
5. To choose different drive, highlight the drive, press the backspace key to remove the current number,
then type a new number.
6. Highlight Start and press Enter .
For transition rate, see “Making Background Activity Settings” on page 494.
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This feature helps you identify the physical drives assigned to the disk array you are working with in the CLU.
To locate a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter .
3. Highlight Locate Disk Array and press Enter .
The drive carrier status LEDs flash for one minute.