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Device Menu Options
Create Spare
This menu option displays a dialog box to create a spare disk drive. Enter values for the following parameters.
Parameter Description
Spare Type
Choose one of:
• Global if the spare drive is for all RAID groups in the system.
• Dedicated if the spare drive is dedicated to a specified RAID group.
Capacity
If you selected Global for the Spare Type, select from a list of spare drive sizes.
Options include sizes from 128 MB to 100 GB, plus MAX.
RAID Group
If you selected Dedicated for the Spare Type, select the RAID group to which
this spare drive is dedicated.
Device
Segment
Select one device segment from the available device segment grid (Global
Spare Type only.
Create Spare dialog
(Global Spare Type)
Create Spare dialog
(Dedicated Spare Type)