User Manual

mAnAging sPAre drives

Spare drive management includes:

• Viewing a List of Spare Drives (below)

• “Creating a Spare Drive Manually”

• “Making Spare Drive Settings”

• “Running Spare Check”

• “Deleting a Spare Drive”

• “Running a Transition”

viewing A list of spAre drives

To view a list of spare drives, do one of the following actions:

• From the Dashboard window, click the Spare Drive link.

• From the Storage menu, choose Spare Drive.

Spare Drive information displays, including:

• ID – Spare0, Spare1, etc.

• Status (Normal, Rebuilding or Failed/missing icon)

• CongurableCapacity– Usable capacity of the spare drive

• Physical Drive ID – ID number of the physical drive chosen for this spare

• Revertible – Yes or No

• Spare Type – Global or Dedicated

• Dedicated to Array – ID number of the disk array to which the spare is dedicated

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