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<div class="BodyAfterHead"><a name="1292560">The following policies affect all units and drives on a controller and can be </a>adjusted as appropriate for your equipment. Controller policies are shown at the bottom of the <a href="Controller_Settings.html#1088416">Controller Settings page</a> in 3DM2.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1193463">Auto-Rebuild.</a></span> Determines whether the Auto-Rebuild policy is enabled or disabled. When disabled, degraded units can only be rebuilt with designated spares. When enabled, the controller firmware will automatically attempt to rebuild a degraded unit if there is no spare, using either an available drive or a failed drive. (See <a href="Config_Controller.5.5.html#1115045">Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy</a>.)</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1193468">Auto-Carving.</a></span> Determines whether the auto-carving policy is enabled or disabled. When it is enabled, when a new unit is created, any unit larger than a specified size (known as the <span class="Emphasis">carve size</span>) is broken into multiple volumes that can be addressed by the operating system as separate volumes. The default carve size is 2 TB.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(See <a href="Config_Controller.5.6.html#1091097">Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support</a>.)</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="UI-Element"><a name="1291500">Carve Size.</a></span> Sets the size for dividing up units into volumes when Auto-Carving is enabled and a unit is created. This setting can be between 1024 GB and 32768 GB. (See <a href="Config_Controller.5.7.html#1115233">Setting the Size of Volumes Created with Auto-Carving</a>.) Changing this setting has no effect on existing units.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1320236">Staggered spin-up. </a></span>Spin-up allows drives to be powered-up into the Standby power management state to minimize in-rush current at power-up and to allow the controller to sequence the spin-up of drives. Compatible drives are sent a spin up command based on the settings specified with the policies <span class="UI-Element">Number of drives per spin-up</span> and <span class="UI-Element">Delay between spin-up </span><span class="UI-Element">settings</span>. These policies can only be set using 3BM or the CLI.</div>
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<div class="Indent"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1320237">Note: </a></span>This policy does not apply to drives attached to an expander. </div>
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<div class="Bullet2_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1320238">Number of drives per spin-up.</a></span> Number of drives that will spin up at the same time when the controller is powered up, if staggered spin-up is enabled. From 1 to x, depending on the number of ports on the controller.</div>
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<div class="Bullet2_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1320239">Delay between spin-up.</a></span> The delay time (in seconds) between drive groups that spin up at one time on this particular controller, if staggered spin-up is enabled.</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1320264">Staggered method. </a></span>Indicates whether the type of staggered spin-up is ATA-6 or SATA OOB (Out Of Band). By default, when Staggered Spin-up is enabled, the OOB scheme is used. If your drives support the SATA ATA-6 method, select that method in 3BM. There is no electronic method for the controller to know if a drive supports this method, so it must be set manually. For staggering to work properly, the drives must support the selected method. This policy does not apply to drives that are attached to an expander. This policy can only be set and only shows in 3BM.</div>
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<div class="Body"><a name="1250149">Some additional policies can be set at the unit level. For more information, </a>see <a href="Config_Units.6.8.html#1157287">Setting Unit Policies</a>.</div>
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