User`s guide

StorageWorks RAID Array 200 Subsystem Family
Adding a Hot Spare Drive after Initial Configuration
If your business cannot tolerate data loss or downtime due to drive failures, you
should keep a drive available in the array as a hot spare for automatic rebuilds.
If you plan to define one of your drives as a hot spare drive, you must do the
following:
1. Exit the utility.
2. Insert the drive you want to designate as your hot spare drive.
3. Invoke the utility.
4. Use the procedure for creating a hot spare below.
5. Save your new configuration to a diskette as described on Page 5-29.
Step
Action
Result
1
Select the View/Update Configuration
option from the main menu.
The system displays the View /Update
Configuration menu as shown in Figure 5-8.
2
Select the Define Spare option from the
View/Update Configuration menu.
The system displays the Define Spare menu as
shown in Figure 5-6.
3
Use the arrow keys to select the drive
you want to define as a spare and press
the Enter key.
The system changes the drive status to HSP (hot
spare).
4
If you select the wrong drive or decide
that you do not want a hot spare drive,
press the Enter key again.
The status of the drive returns to its previous
status.
5
Press the ESC key.
The system displays a confirmation window that
asks if you want to save your configuration.
6
Select Yes.
The system saves your configuration and returns
you to the main menu.
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