Chapter 6 Settings Menu
> 6.5 Eco-mode
ETERNUS DX400/DX8000 series ETERNUSmgr User Guide Settings/Maintenance
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The following Common Eco-mode Settings are available:
• Eco-mode Start setting
• Eco-mode Stop setting
6.5.1.1 Eco-mode Start setting
The following explains the procedure to start the Eco-mode.
Procedure
1 Click [Set Common Eco-mode] under the Eco-mode in the [Settings] menu.
→ The [Set Common Eco-mode (Set)] screen appears.
• If one of the following operation occurs while Eco-mode is enabled (the
disk is stopped), all the disk motors installed in the device will start.
When the following operation is complete, Eco-mode is enabled again.
- When turning on the device power supply.
- During maintenance.
- During disk diagnosis.
- During RAID diagnosis.
- When checking disk operations. (*1)
*1: To check the operation of disks whose motors are normally disabled,
all such disks are briefly enabled at 00:00 every night.
Eco-mode is re-enabled after correct disk operation has been
confirmed.
• When a RAID Group is not included in the Thin Provisioning Pool, Eco-
mode operates for each RAID Group.
When using Eco-mode, create an Eco-mode schedule in the [Set Eco-
mode Schedule] menu and register the created schedule in the RAID
Group by the [Set RAID Group-Eco-mode].
• When a RAID Group is included in the Thin Provisioning Pool (TPP),
Eco-mode operates for each TPP.
When using Eco-mode, create an Eco-mode schedule in the [Set Eco-
mode Schedule] menu and register the created schedule in the Thin
Provisioning Pool by the [Set Thin Provisioning Pool-Eco-mode].
• Eco-mode is available for Fibre Channel disk drives and Nearline SATA
disk drives.
• Eco-mode is used to schedule the disk operation time. The disk motor is
started 15 minutes before the specified operation time, and is stopped
15 minutes after the specified operation time.