Setting copy-back mode

Before you begin

You must have the Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role.

Procedure

1. Perform one of the following to display the Edit Parity Groups window.

For Command Suite:

• On the Resource tab, expand the Storage Systems tree. Right-click Parity Groups of the target storage system. Click Edit Parity Groups.

For Storage Navigator:

1. On the Parity Groups tab, select the parity group that defines the copy-back mode.

To display the Parity Groups tab, perform one of the following:

(1) To display all parity groups in the storage system, in the storage system tree, select Parity Groups, then select the Parity Groups tab.

(2) To display parity groups related to Internal, in the storage system tree, expand Parity Groups select Internal, then select the Parity Groups tab.

2. To display the Edit Parity Groups window, perform one of the following:

(1) Click More Actions, then select Edit Parity Groups.

(2) Click Actions > Parity Group > Edit Parity Groups to open the window.

2. Select the Edit Copy-Back Mode check box, and check Enable or Disable.

Enable: When a failed drive is recovered, data copied to the spare drive is in the recovered drive.

Disable: When a failed drive is recovered, data copied to the spare drive is in the spare drive.

3. Click Finish.

4. In the Confirm window, confirm the settings, in Task Name type a unique name for this task or accept the default, then click Apply.

If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.