Users Guide

Hot Spare Considerations — 4KBSector Hard-Disk Drives

The following is the Hot Spare considerations (Dedicated and Global Hot Spare) for 4KB sector hard-disk drives supported on PERC

9 hardware controllers:

• You cannot assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Dedicated Hot Spare for virtual disks created with 512B sector hard-disk drives

and vice versa.

• You cannot assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Global Hot Spare, if the virtual disk created consists of 512B sector hard-disk

drives only and vice versa.

• You can assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Global Hot Spare, if there are 4KB sector hard-disk drives and 512B sector hard-

disk drives in the virtual disks created and vice versa.

NOTE: If you perform this action a warning message is displayed.

Related Tasks

• Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard

Reconguration Considerations — 4KB Sector Hard-Disk Drives

You cannot recongure 4KB sector hard-disk drives with virtual disks that consist of 512B sector hard-disk drives and vice versa.