Creating global hot spares

A list of physical disks is displayed. The status of the each disk is displayed under the heading State.

2.Press the down-arrow key to highlight a physical disk.

3.Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.

4.Press the down-arrow key to highlight LED Blinking.

5.Press the right-arrow key to display the available actions, Start and Stop.

6.Select Start to begin LED blinking or Stop to end LED blinking.

You can use a global hot spare to replace a failed physical disk in any redundant array as long as the capacity of the global hot spare is equal to or larger than the coerced capacity of the failed physical disk. Perform the following steps to create global hot spares:

1.Press the down-arrow key to highlight a physical disk to change to a global hot spare.

2.Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.

3.Press the down-arrow key to highlight Make Global HS and press <Enter>.

The physical disk is changed to a global hot spare. The status of the physical disk as a global hot spare is displayed under the heading State.

NOTE: To replace a failed physical disk global hot spares must use the same disk technology and must be equal or greater in size.

NOTE: To change additional physical disks to global hot spares, follow step 1 to step 4.

Removing global or dedicated hot spares

You can remove one global or dedicated hot spare at a time on the PD Mgmt screen. Perform the following steps to remove a global hot spare or dedicated hot spare:

1.Press <Ctrl> <N> to access the PD Mgmt screen.

A list of physical disks is displayed. The status of the each disk is displayed under the heading State.

2.Press the down-arrow key to highlight a physical disk that is a hot spare.

3.Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.

4.Press the down-arrow key to select Remove Hot Spare from the list of actions and press <Enter>.

The physical disk is changed to the Ready state. The status of the physical disk is displayed under the heading State.

NOTE: Try to use physical disks of the same capacity in a specific virtual disk. If you use physical disks with different capacities in a virtual disk, all physical disks in the virtual disk are treated as if they have the capacity of the smallest physical disk.

NOTE: To remove additional global or dedicated hot spares, follow step 1 to step 4.

Replacing an online physical disk

In addition to the automatic Replace Member operation, you can manually replace any physical disk that is part of a virtual disk using the Replace Member functionality.

Perform the following steps to replace a physical disk:

1.In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and press the down-arrow key until Physical Disks is highlighted.

2.Press the right-arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that are members of the virtual disk.