Users Guide

Related Concepts
Dedicated Hot Spare Protection Policy
Dedicated Hot Spare Considerations
Assigning A Dedicated Hot Spare
Unassigning A Dedicated Hot Spare
Assigning 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 are in the spun down state, a message
appears indicating the IDs of the spun down state and the delay in executing tasks on them.
Unassigning A Dedicated Hot Spare
1. Select 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.
To Locate Assign Or Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare In Storage Management
1. Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2. Expand a Controller object.
3. Select the Virtual Disks object.
4. Select Assign Dedicated Hot Spare or Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare from the Available Tasks
drop-down menu.
5. Click Execute.
Virtual Disk Task: Replace Member Disk (Step 1 of 2)
NOTE: This feature is supported only on SAS and SATA controllers with firmware versions 6.1 and
later.
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
You can copy data from a physical disk, which is a member of a virtual disk, to another physical disk by
providing a Replace Member Configuration option. You can initiate multiple copies of data from different
array groups.
The source physical disk should be part of a virtual disk and in the Online state. Also, the virtual disk
should not be fully degraded.
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