13.13 Restriping a Software RAID 0 or 5 Device

In general, there are three reasons for restriping of software RAID 0 and 5 devices:

If the restriping process is interrupted, the RAID recognizes that when the system reboots, and automatically continues the restriping process. You can also use iManager to pause and resume a restriping process.

When expanding a RAID 5, if the newly added drive goes down during the restripe, the restriping continues without the new partition and puts the RAID in a degraded state with one partition missing. If the same partition comes back online, it finishes the restripe. If the partition has completely failed, after the degraded restriping is complete, you can add a new replacement partition, and the RAID restripes to fix it.

To manually resume or pause the Restripe process:

  1. In iManager, click Storage > Software RAIDs.





    1. Click Volumes.


    3. Click Dismount.

  4. Select a device in the Software RAIDs list.

    Wait for the page to refresh before continuing.

  5. Click Restripe.

    The restriping process begins or pauses immediately. Restriping severely degrades I/O performance until the restriping is complete.