User's Manual

Physical Disks or Physical Devices 207
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.