Users Guide

Assigning And Unassigning Dedicated Hot Spare

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

A dedicated hot spare is an unused backup disk that is assigned to a single virtual disk. When a physical disk in the virtual disk fails,

the hot spare is activated to replace the failed physical disk without interrupting the system or requiring your intervention.

For more information on hot spares including size requirements, see Protecting Your Virtual Disk With A Hot Spare.

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Dedicated Hot Spare Protection Policy

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

congured as dedicated hot spare

table.

2. Click Apply Changes when ready.

Unassigning A Dedicated Hot Spare

1. Select the disk in the Disks currently congured 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 congured 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 rmware 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

Conguration option. You can initiate multiple copies of data from dierent 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.

NOTE: You must also enable the Revertible Hot Spare option to use Replace Member Disk task.

The destination physical disk should be in the Ready state, available to be written to, and of the appropriate size and type.

NOTE: The destination physical disk can also be an available hot spare.