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Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Administrator’s Guide

Configuring background scrub for disk groups

You can enable or disable whether the system continuously analyzes disks in disk groups to find and fix disk errors. This command will fix parity mismatches for RAID 5 and 6; find but not fix mirror mismatches for RAID 1 and 10. It will not fix media errors.

You can use a disk group while it is being scrubbed. Background disk group scrub runs at background utility priority, which reduces to no activity if processor usage is above a certain percentage or if I/O is occurring on the disk group being scrubbed. A disk group scrub may be in process on multiple disk groups at once. A new disk group will first be scrubbed 20 minutes after creation. After a disk group is scrubbed, scrub will start again after the interval specified by the Disk Group Scrub Interval hours option.

When a scrub is complete, event 207 is logged and specifies whether errors were found and whether user action is required. Enabling background disk group scrub is recommended.

NOTE:If you choose to disable background disk group scrub, you can still scrub a selected disk group by using Action > Disk Group Utilities.

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