Dell EMC PowerVault MD 34XX/38XX Series Storage Arrays Administrator's Guide

Changing media scan settings

1. In the AMW, select the Storage & Copy Services tab and select any virtual disk.
2. From the menu bar, select Storage > Virtual Disk > Change > Media Scan Settings.
   The Change Media Scan Settings window is displayed.
3. Deselect Suspend media scan, if selected.
4. In Scan duration (in days), enter or select the duration (in days) for the media scan.
   The media scan duration specifies the number of days for which the media scan runs on the selected virtual disks.
5. To disable media scans on an individual virtual disk, select the virtual disk in the Select virtual disks to scan area, and deselect Scan selected virtual disks.
6. To enable media scans on an individual virtual disk, select the virtual disk in the Select virtual disks to scan area, and select Scan selected virtual disks.
7. To enable or disable the consistency check, select either With consistency check or Without consistency check.
   NOTE: A consistency check scans the data blocks in a RAID Level 5 virtual disk, or a RAID Level 6 virtual disk and checks the consistency information for each block. A consistency check compares data blocks on RAID Level 1 replicated physical disks. RAID Level 0 virtual disks have no data consistency.
8. Click OK.