Users Guide

NOTE: Rebuilding a disk may take several hours.

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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

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.

Global hot spares must be assigned and unassigned manually. They are not assigned to specic 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.

NOTE: When deleting virtual disks, all assigned global hot spares may be automatically unassigned when the last virtual

disk associated with the controller is deleted. When the last virtual disk of a disk group is deleted, all assigned dedicated

hot spares automatically become global hot spares.

NOTE: For PERC H330, H730, H730P, H740P, and PERC H840 controllers, if any of the drives you selected are in the

Spun Down state, the following message is displayed: The current physical drive is in the spun down

state. Executing this task on this drive takes additional time, because the drive needs

to spun up.

You should be familiar with the size requirements and other considerations associated with hot spares.