
Chapter 5 Advanced Operation
5.1 Rebuild
When A Volume Group (VG) is protected by RAID level (e.g.: RAID 3, RAID 5, or RAID 6), if one
physical disk has been failed, unplugged or removed, the VG status is changed to rebuild. The system
will search for available space to rebuild the data to ensure data integrity. It will use the dedicated spare
disk as rebuild disk fi rst, then the global spare disk.
Sans Digital iSCSI Series Products support the Auto-Rebuild function. When the RAID level degraded or
fail, Sans Digital iSCSI Series Products start Rebuild automatically.
For example, if a RAID 6 is setup:
1. When there is no global spare disk or dedicated spare disk on the system, Sans Digital iSCSI Series
Products will be in degraded mode and wait until
(A) one hard disk is assigned as spare hard disk,
(B) the failed hard disk is replaced with new clean hard disk.
An Auto-Rebuild process will starts automatically when either of the above occur. The new disk will
be a spare disk to the original VG .
If the new added hard disk is not clean (with unknown VG information), it would be marked as
RS (reserved) and the system will not start the Auto-Rebuild.
If the disk is belonging to existing VG, it would be FR (Free) disk and the system will start
Auto-Rebuild.
2. When there is enough global spare disk(s) or dedicated spare disk(s), Sans Digital iSCSI Series
Products will start Auto-Rebuild immediately. In RAID 6 level, if there is another disk failure
during the
rebuilding process, Sans Digital iSCSI Series Products will complete the rebuild regardless. The
Auto-Rebuild feature works at realtime to prevent a confl ict with the “Roaming” function.
In degraded mode, the status of VG is “DG”.
When rebuilding, the status of PD/VG/UDV will display “R”, and “R%” in UDV will display rebuild status
in percentage. After rebuilding is complete, “R” and “DG” will disappear. And the VG will back to normal.
Note : If there is no VG or only the VG under RAID 0 or JBOD mode, rebuild is not avaliable.
Sometimes "Rebuild" is also known as "Recover". The following table describes the relationship between
RAID levels and rebuilding.
RAID 0
(striping). No data protection. Data is damaged or inaccessible if any hard disk fails or is unplugged.
RAID 1
(mirroring). Allows one hard disk to fail or being unplugged. One new hard disk is required to insert to the system to complete
the rebuilding.
N-way mirror
Extension of RAID 1 level. It has N copies of the disks and allows N-1 hard disks to fail or being unplugged.
RAID 3
(striping with parity). Allows one hard disk to fail or being unplugged.
50 RAID Introduction
Comentarios a estos manuales