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Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
A dedicated hot spare is an unused backup disk that is assigned to a single
virtual disk. When a physical disk in the virtual disk fails, the hot spare is
activated to replace the failed physical disk without interrupting the system or
requiring your intervention.
For more information on hot spares including size requirements, see
Protecting Your Virtual Disk with a Hot Spare. For considerations regarding
RAID 10 and RAID 50 virtual disks created using the controller BIOS, see
Dedicated Hot Spare Considerations.
NOTE: The CERC SATA1.5/2s controller does not support dedicated hot spares.
To assign a dedicated hot spare:
1 Select the disk in the Connector (channel or port) table that you want to
use as the dedicated hot spare. On some controllers, more than one disk
can be selected. The disks you have selected as dedicated hot spares are
displayed in the
Disks currently configured as dedicated hot spare table.
2 Click Apply Changes when ready.
NOTE: For PERC H310 Adapter, PERC H310 Mini Monolithic, PERC H310 Mini
Blades, PERC H700, PERC H710 Adapter, PERC H710 Mini Blades, PERC H710 Mini
Monolithic, PERC H710P Adapter, PERC H710P Mini Blades, PERC H710P Mini
Monolithic, PERC H800, and PERC H810 Adapter controllers, if any of the selected
physical drives is in the spun down state, a message appears indicating the IDs of
the spun down state and the delay in executing tasks on them.
To unassign a dedicated hot spare:
1 Click the disk in the Disks currently configured as dedicated hot spare
table to unassign it. On some controllers, more than one disk can be
selected. Clicking the disk removes the disk from the
Disks currently
configured as dedicated hot spare
table and returns it to the Connector
(channel or port) table.
2 Click Apply Changes when ready.