Users Guide

system or requiring your intervention. When a hot spare is activated, it rebuilds the data for all redundant virtual disks that were using

the failed physical disk.

NOTE: From iDRAC v2.30.30.30 or later, you can add global hot spares when virtual disks are not created.

You can change the hot spare assignment by unassigning a disk and choosing another disk as needed. You can also assign more than

one physical disk as a global hot spare.

Global hot spares must be assigned and unassigned manually. They are not assigned to specic virtual disks. If you want to assign a

hot spare to a virtual disk (it replaces any physical disk that fails in the virtual disk), then see Assigning or unassigning dedicated hot

spares.

When deleting virtual disks, all assigned global hot spares may be automatically unassigned when the last virtual disk associated with

the controller is deleted.

If you reset the conguration, the virtual disks are deleted and all the hot spares are unassigned.

You must be familiar with the size requirements and other considerations associated with hot spares.

Before assigning a physical disk as a global hot spare:

• Make sure that Lifecycle Controller is enabled.

• If there are no disk drives available in ready state, insert additional disk drives and make sure that the drives are in ready state.

• If no virtual disks are present, create at least one virtual disk.

• If physical disks are in non-RAID mode convert them to RAID mode using iDRAC interfaces such as iDRAC web interface,

RACADM, or WS-MAN, or <CTRL+R>.

If you have assigned a physical disk as a global hot spare in Add to Pending Operation mode, the pending operation is created but a

job is not created. Then, if you try to unassign the same disk as global hot spare, the assign global hot spare pending operation is

cleared.

If you have unassigned a physical disk as a global hot spare in Add to Pending Operation mode, the pending operation is created but

a job is not created. Then, if you try to assign the same disk as a global hot spare, the unassign global hot spare pending operation is

cleared.

Assigning or unassigning global hot spare using web interface

To assign or unassign a global hot spare for a physical disk drive:

1. In the iDRAC web interface, go to Overview → Storage → Physical Disks → Setup.

The Setup Physical Disk page is displayed.

2. From the Controller drop-down menu, select the controller to view the associated physical disks.

3. To assign as a global hotspare, from the drop-down menus in the Action-Assign to All column, select Global Hotspare for one

or more physical disks.

4. To unassign a hot spare, from the drop-down menus in the Action-Assign to All column, select Unassign Hotspare for one or

more physical disks.

5. From the Apply Operation Mode drop-down menu, select when you want to apply the settings.

6. Click Apply.

Based on the selected operation mode, the settings are applied.