Making a Drive Online

You can change the state of a drive to online. In an online state, the drive works normally and is a part of a configured volume.

Attention: When transitioning a drive to an online state manually or forcefully, you lose data on the drive. When adding a drive to an existing volume or replacing a drive in an existing volume, you must manually start the rebuild process, if the rebuild does not automatically start. When the rebuild process is completed, the drive automatically transitions to an online state.
  1. Navigate to the Controller Dashboard, click an array name (for example, Array_1).
    Click the icon corresponding to an array to display its contents.
    The volumes and drives that are associated with the selected array appear.
  2. Click the Drive tab, and select the offline drive that you want to make online.
  3. Select Actions > Make Drive Online.
    The drive status changes to Online.