Additional Features
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HighPoint Storage Management Console provides the following additional features, which can keep maximum data integrity and consistency for your storage sub-system. If a disk is removed when it is running I/O operations or when some I/O errors occur in this disk, users will be informed. When the disk doesn’t run read/write operations, users can use the refresh function to rescan the devices. Similarly, when you insert a new disk, you can force the software to detect the disk using refresh function. Once a new disk is found, the software will auto-detect if there exists a broken array. If the capacity of the new disk suits the requirement of the array, users will be inquired whether to add the new disk into this array or not. If yes, the system will do it and perform auto-rebuild operation.The HighPoint Storage Management Service supports the auto-rebuild function. This can help users to auto-rebuild RAID 1,RAID 5,RAID 0/1 or RAID 1/0 array under the following circumstances. 1. A spare disk exists in the spare pool. When a source disk in a RAID 1 array fails, a mirror disk will replace it automatically and the spare disk will become the mirror disk. If a mirror disk fails, the spare disk will auto-replace it to be the mirror disk. 2. When a disk is added to a RAID 1,RAID 5,RAID 0/1 or RAID 1/0 array and the array resumes normal, the auto-rebuild function will be started. 3. When the HighPoint Storage Management Service is enabled, the system will auto-rebuild all needed arrays at the same time.When HighPoint Storage Management Console is launched, it will execute the following checking: is launched, it will execute the following checking: 1. If there exists a disabled array. If yes, users will be informed to delete it. 2. If there exists an array needed to be rebuilt. If yes, users will be prompted to rebuild it. 3. If there exists a broken array. If yes and there also exists a single disk, users will be prompted to add the single disk to the broken array. Then the array will be auto-rebuilt. |