Managing hot spares

You may configure one disk as a global hot spare to protect critical data on the RAID 1/1E/10 volume(s). You may create the hot spare disk at the same time you create the RAID 1/1E/10 volume. Refer to this section when adding a hot spare disk on an existing volume.

If a disk on an RAID 1/1E/10 volume fails, the utility automatically rebuilds the failed disk data on the hot spare. When the failed disk is replaced, the utility assigns the replacement as the new hot spare.

To create a hot spare

1.Follow steps 1–3 of the section Viewing volume properties.

2.From the View Volume screen, select Manage Volume, then press <Enter>.

 

LSI Corp Config Utility

 

v7.07.00.00 (2010.04.30)

 

 

 

View Volume -- SAS2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume

 

 

 

1 of 1

Logical Volume

3000

 

 

 

Identifier

 

 

 

LSI

 

 

 

Type

 

 

 

RAID 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Size(GB)

 

 

 

148

 

 

 

 

 

 

Status

 

 

 

Optimal

 

 

 

 

 

 

Task

 

 

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manage Volume

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slot

Device

Identifier

 

RAID

Hot

Drive

Pred

Size

 

Num

ATA

ST3160812AS

E

Disk

Spr

Status

Fail

(GB)

 

0

Yes

No

Primary

No

148

 

1

ATA

ST3160812AS

E

Yes

No

Secondary

No

148

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Esc = Exit Menu

F1/Shift+1 = Help

 

 

 

 

 

Enter=Select Item

Alt+N=Next Volume

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.From the Manage Volume screen, select Manage Hot Spares, then press <Enter>.

 

LSI Corp Config Utility

v7.07.00.00 (2010.04.30)

 

 

Manage Volume -- SAS2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Identifier

LSI

Logical Volume 3000

 

 

 

Type

RAID 1

 

 

 

 

Size(GB)

148

 

 

 

 

Status

Optimal

 

 

 

 

Task

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manage Hot Spares

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consistency Check

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activate Volume

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delete Volume

 

 

 

 

 

 

Online Capacity Expansion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Esc = Exit Menu

F1/Shift+1 = Help

 

 

 

Enter = Select Item

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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