Chapter 9: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares ●93
What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?
Removing a Hot Spare
You can remo ve a global hot spare or dedicated hot spare. You may want
to do this to:
●Make disk drive space available for a logical drive.
●Make a dedicated hot spare into a global hot spare or a global hot
spare into a dedicated hot spare.
●Remove the ‘hot spare’ designation from a disk drive that is no
longer being used as a hot spare. (When a hot spare is built into a
logical drive after a disk drive failure, it retains its ‘hot spare’
designation even though it can no longer protect the logical drives
it’s assigned to. See Recov e ring f ro m a Disk Dri ve Failure on page 147
for more information.)
Icon Explanation Action
■Healthy global or dedica te d
hot spare N o action required.
■Hot spare is not assigned to
any logical drives
■Create at least one logical
drive on the same controller
■Hot spare is too small to
protect the logical drive(s) it’s
assigned to
■Designate larger disk drive as
hot spare
■Global hot spare was
designated before any logical
drives were built
■Create at least one logical
drive on the same controller
■Hot spar e has been built int o a
logical drive after disk drive
failure
■Designate repl a cement or
other available disk drive as
new hot spare; remove ‘hot
spare’ designation from disk
drive (see below)