Users Guide

Removing Global Or Dedicated Hot Spares

You can remove one global or dedicated hot spare at a time on the PD Mgmt screen. Perform the

following steps to remove a global hot spare or dedicated hot spare:

1. Press <Ctrl> <N> to access the PD Mgmt screen.

A list of physical disks is displayed. The status of the each disk is displayed under the heading State.

2. Press the down-arrow key to highlight a physical disk that is a hot spare.

3. Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.

4. Press the down-arrow key to select Remove Hot Spare from the list of actions and press <Enter>.

The physical disk is changed to the Ready state. The status of the physical disk is displayed under the

heading State.

NOTE: Try to use physical disks of the same capacity in a specific virtual disk. If you use physical

disks with different capacities in a virtual disk, all physical disks in the virtual disk are treated as if

they have the capacity of the smallest physical disk.

5. Select additional hot spares if desired and follow step 1 to step 4 to remove them.

Replacing An Online Physical Disk

In addition to the automatic Replace Member operation, you can manually replace any physical disk that

is part of a virtual disk using the

Replace Member functionality.

Perform the following steps to replace a physical disk:

1. In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and press the down-arrow key until

Physical Disks is highlighted.

2. Press the right-arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that are members of the virtual disk.

3. Press the down-arrow key and highlight the desired physical disk you want to replace. Press <F2> to

expand the list of allowed operations on the disk.

4. Select Replace and then Start.

5. Press the down-arrow to highlight a replacement disk and then press the spacebar to select the disk.

6. Select OK to start the replacement.

NOTE: The replacement disk must be a hot spare or an unconfigured disk without a foreign

configuration. It must have the same or greater capacity and should be of the same type as the

disk it is replacing.

Restrictions and limitations

The following restrictions and limitations apply to the Replace Member operation:

• The Replace Member functions are restricted to one per array for RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5, and two

per array for RAID 6.

• The Replace Member function and rebuild cannot run simultaneously on a RAID 6 virtual disk. The

rebuild operation has a higher priority, and the Replace Member operation is aborted if a rebuild

begins.

• The Replace Member function and rebuild cannot run simultaneously on a RAID 6 virtual disk. The

rebuild operation has a higher priority, and the Replace Member operation is aborted if a rebuild

begins.