Dell S100, S300 manual Cannot Create a Global Hot Spare

Table 7-11. Cannot Assign a Dedicated Hot Spare to a Virtual Disk

Likely Causes to Check	Corrective Actions
The RAID level does not allow a	Hot spares cannot be created for Volume or RAID 0
dedicated hot spare to be created	virtual disks.
The designated physical disk	The capacity of the physical disk selected to be a
does not have sufficient capacity	dedicated hot spare must be equal to or larger than
to be a dedicated hot spare	the capacity of the smallest physical disk in the
	virtual disk.
	For example, if the physical disk selected for a
	dedicated hot spare is 160 GB, and the physical
	disks in the virtual disk are 80 GB, 160 GB, and
	500 GB, a dedicated hot spare can be assigned.
	That is because the physical disk selected for the
	dedicated hot spare is larger than the smallest
	(80 GB) physical disk in the virtual disk.
The physical disk is already part	A dedicated hot spare cannot be assigned to
of a virtual disk	another virtual disk.
The physical disks are of	The physical disk used as a dedicated spare must be
different types	the same type as the physical disks that are already
	part of the virtual disk. For example, if a virtual disk
	consists of SATA-II physical disks, the dedicated
	hot spare must be a SATA-II physical disk.
Table 7-12. Cannot Create a Global Hot Spare
Likely Causes to Check	Corrective Actions
There are no empty physical	Install additional physical disks and initialize them.
disks available or the physical	If existing physical disks have a status of New they
disks have not been initialized	need to be initialized.

WARNING: When a physical disk is initialized, all data on the physical disk is lost.

NOTE: A physical disk with a Non-Raidstatus can be initialized, if desired, but it is no longer Non-Raid(initialization adds PERC S100 adapter/PERC S300 adapter configuration information to the physical disk).

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