Physical Disk Roaming And Data Migration; Fault-Tolerance And Management Features - HP D5970A - NetServer - LCII Installation And Configuration Manual

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I O Support (HP NetRAID-3Si Adapters Only)
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HP NetRAID-3Si adapters support I
operating systems. For a complete list of operating systems for which HP
NetRAID I O drivers are available, see the HP web site at
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www.hp.com/go/netserver

Physical Disk Roaming and Data Migration

HP NetRAID Series adapters allow physical disk roaming, in which the adapter
keeps track of disk modules if they are moved to different slots in the hot swap
cages, as long as the slots are all controlled by the same adapter.
HP NetRAID Series adapters allow disk modules to be moved to different HP
NetRAID Series adapters. HP NetRAID Series adapters can be swapped without
losing data readability.

Fault-Tolerance and Management Features

Fault-Tolerance features include the following:
Automatic failed-drive detection with Autorebuild (automatic rebuild with
a hot spare or when a drive is replaced)
Manual hot swap replacement
Battery-backed cache memory
Management features include the following:
Monitoring of adapter configuration, data parity consistency, and SNMP
error messages
Rapid online configuration change and capacity expansion without the
need to first back up all data, reconfigure the array, and reload the data
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O (Intelligent Input/Output) with some
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Introduction