
Chapter 3: Creating and Configuring RAID Arrays
Configuring Logical Drives 3-15
3.2.5 Logical Drive Roaming
The Online Roaming capability allows users to physically move
the member disks of a configured LD to another Galaxy storage
system without disruptions to service. This applies when
duplicating a test/research environment or physically moving a
configured array to start an application on another installation site.
Concerns & Things to Know
1. Drive roaming is convenient for moving members of a logical
drive. However, it is very important not to remove the wrong
drives. Removing the wrong drives can destroy data in
adjacent logical drives.
2. When an LD is shutdown, the status of its members changes
to “OFFLINED.”
3. When an LD is shutdown, and then its members removed,
there will not be an event such as “Unexpected Select
Timeout.” The “Drive Removed” event will prompt instead. The
status of the removed drives is “MISSING,” instead of
“FAILED.”
4. When all members of a shutdown LD are removed, an “All
Member Drive Removed” message will prompt.
5. Roaming is not allowed on an LD performing a cloning job.
6. When an LD is shutdown, its associated LUN mapping and
logical partition information is also disabled. When restarted,
LUN mapping and partition information is also restored.
7. An Incomplete array (LD with missing members) will not be
restarted.
8. Restart with a Fatally-failed LD:
8-1. Fatal failure, such as using two wrong drives (not the
correct members) in a RAID5 array during roaming, can
disable an LD. When this happens, there is no need to
reset a system. Once you insert the correct disk drives,
firmware will recognize their presence after scanning
drive channels, and the LD can be restarted.
8-2. If you already have a faulty drive in a RAID5 LD and an
incorrect drive, system will also consider it as fatally
failed. The LD status will return to the “one-drive-failed”
state after you insert the correct member. Then you can
proceed with rebuilding the LD.
8-3. If the roaming LD is indicated as “Fatal Failed,”
shutdown the LD and find out drives that are marked as
“MISSING.” When all correct members are present and
their status highlighted as “GOOD,” the Restart
command will also become available.
9. When inserting member drives from another RAID system, it
is not necessary to follow the original slot locations. Logical
configuration is stored on each member drive’s 256MB
reserved space.
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