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NOTE: This procedure is not available for physical disks or devices that have been assigned as a hot spare or

physical disk or devices that are part of a virtual disk. In addition, this procedure is only supported for hotswap

physical disks or devices (disks that reside in a carrier.)

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Replacing A Failed Disk That Is Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk

Canceling A Rebuild

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

Select the Cancel Rebuild task to cancel a rebuild that is in progress. If you cancel a rebuild, the virtual disk remains in a

Degraded state. The failure of an additional physical disk can cause the virtual disk to fail and may result in data loss. It

is recommended that you rebuild the failed physical disk as soon as possible.

NOTE: If you cancel the rebuild of a physical disk that is assigned as a hot spare, reinitiate the rebuild on the same

physical disk in order to restore the data. Canceling the rebuild of a physical disk and then assigning another

physical disk as a hot spare does not cause the newly assigned hot spare to rebuild the data. Reinitiate the rebuild

on the physical disk that was the original hot spare.

Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare

CAUTION: The SAS 6/iR controller enables you to assign two physical disks as global hot spare. Assigning a

physical disk as a global hot spare on a SAS 6/iR controller is likely to cause data loss from the physical disk. If the

system or boot partition resides on the physical disks, it may be destroyed. You should only assign physical disks

that do not contain critical data.

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

A global hot spare is an unused backup disk that is part of the disk group. Hot spares remain in standby mode. When a

physical disk that is used in a virtual disk fails, the assigned hot spare is activated to replace the failed physical disk

without interrupting the 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.

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.

NOTE: On SAS 6/iR controllers, you cannot assign physical disks that have boot partitions, as hot spares.

NOTE: On PERC S100 and S300 controllers, if there is free space available on the global hot spare, it continues to

function as a spare even after replacing a failed physical disk.

Global hot spares must be assigned and unassigned manually. They are not assigned to specific 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 use the Assign

and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare.

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