User manual

Chapter 5: Management with WebPAM PRO
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Creating a Spare Drive
To create a spare drive:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Spare Drives icon.
3. Click the Create tab in Management View.
4. Choose a spare type, Global or Dedicated and click the Next button.
5. To make a revertible spare drive, check the Revertible box.
6. To enable Media Patrol on this spare drive, check the Enable Media Patrol
box.
7. Dedicated spare drives only. Choose a type of physical drive from the Media
Type dropdown menu.
HDD is a hard disk drive. SSD is a solid state drive. Physical drive type of the
spare must match the disk array.
8. In the Physical drives field, highlight the physical drive you want to assign as
a spare drive in the Available list and press the >> button to move the drive
to the Selected list.
You can also double-click drives to move them.
9. Dedicated spare drives only. In the Dedicated to Disk Arrays field, highlight
disk array to which you want assign the spare drive from the Available list
and press the >> button to move the array to the Selected list.
You can also double-click arrays to move them.
10. Click the Update button.
Your choices are displayed under New Hot Spare Drives.
11. If you agree with the proposed choices, click the Submit button.
Important
• There must be an unconfigured physical drive available to
assign as a spare drive. See “Viewing a List of Physical
Drives” on page 149.
• Be sure the spare drive you choose has capacity equal to or
greater than the smallest physical drive assigned to the disk
array.
• A dedicated spare drive must be the same media type, HDD
or SDD, as the other physical drives in the disk array.
• Free of any previous configuration data. See “Clearing Stale
and PFA Conditions” on page 152 or page 269.