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Hot Spare Considerations — T10 Protection Information Capability
The following is the Hot Spare considerations (Dedicated and Global Hot Spare) for T10 Protection
Information (PI) supported physical disks on PERC 9 hardware controllers:
Only T10 PI supported physical disks can be assigned as a Dedicated Hot Spare to T10 PI enabled
virtual disks.
Physical disks which are T10 PI supported or unsupported can be assigned as Dedicated Hot Spare to
T10 PI disabled virtual disks on PERC 9 hardware controllers.
If a T10 PI enabled virtual disk is present along with T10 PI disabled virtual disk, assigning a physical
disk which is T10 PI unsupported as Global Hot Spare will be successful.
NOTE: An error message is displayed if you perform this action.
If only T10 PI disabled virtual disks are present, a T10 PI supported physical disk can be assigned as
Global Hot Spare.
A T10 PI enabled virtual disk cannot be reconfigured using a T10 PI non-capable physical disks
Related Tasks
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard
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