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Vess R2000 Series Product Manual Promise Technologies
MAnAgIng SPARe DRIVeS
Spare drive management includes:
• “Viewing a List of Spare Drives” on page 212
• “Viewing Spare Drive Information” on page 213
• “Creating a Spare Drive Manually” on page 214
• “Deleting a Spare Drive” on page 215
• “Making Spare Drive Settings” on page 215
• “Locating a Spare Drive” on page 216
• “Running Spare Check” on page 216
• “Running a Transition on a Spare Drive” on page 217
ViewiNg a list oF spare driVes
To view a list of spare drives:
1. Click the Storage tab.
2. Click the Spare Drive icon.
SpareDriveinformationdisplays,including:
• ID–Spare0,Spare1,etc.
• Operational Status–OKmeansnormal
• 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