Background Operations Support

The LSI Storage Authority software provides a background Pause, Resume, Abort, Pause All, Resume All, and Abort All features that enhance the functionality where in the background operations running on a physical drive or a virtual drive can be paused for some time, and resumed later.

NOTE  The background operations, including consistency-check, rebuild, replace, and initialization are supported by an Abort operation. If any operation is stopped before completion, it is considered to be aborted. An aborted operation cannot be resumed from the place where it was stopped.

To perform Pause, Resume and Abort operations, go to the Background Processes in Progress window in the Server dashboard or the Controller dashboard, and perform the following steps. The Background Processes in Progress window is as shown in the following figure.

Figure 3. Background Processes in Progress Window

Pause – Click Pause to suspend the background operation taking place at that particular point of time. When the operations gets paused, the Resume option appears instead of the Pause option.

Resume – Click Resume to resume the operation from the point where it was suspended last.

Abort – Click Abort to abort the ongoing active operation.

Pause All – Click Pause All to suspend all the active operations. This option is enabled only if one or more background operations are in active state.

Resume All – Click Resume All to resume all the paused operations from the point they were paused. This option is disabled if no operations are paused.

Abort All – Click Abort All to abort all the active operations.