User's Manual

Physical Disks or Physical Devices 215
If Revertible Hot Spare is enabled and the physical disk is SMART-enabled,
the controller firmware automatically starts copying data from the SMART-
enabled disk in the virtual disk to the hot spare.
NOTE: To use the Revertible Hot Spare task, you should have assigned a hot spare
to the virtual disk.
NOTE: If the disk is not SMART-enabled or if the Auto Replace on Predictive Failure
option is disabled, the failed disk is not replaced automatically.
To enable Revertible Hot Spare:
1 On the Change Controller Properties page, enable Revertible Hot Spare
and
Auto replace on predictive failure .
2 Click Apply Changes .
To locate this task in Storage Management:
1 Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2 Select a controller object on which you want to enable the revertible hot
spare task and select the
Information/Configuration tab.
3 From the Controller Task drop down menu, select Change Controller
Properties
and click Execute .
NOTE: The Rebuild rate for Revertible Hot Spare is the same as defined for the
controller.
Instant Encrypt Erase
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features .
Use the Instant Encrypt Erase task to erase an encrypted physical disk. This
task is available for:
•Unconfigured SED drive
• Foreign configured encrypted drives
• Unconfigured and foreign SED drive even when an Encryption Key is not
present in the controller
CAUTION: Instant Encrypt Erase permanently erases all data present on the disk.