Managing Disks
The NAS Manager allows you to perform the most often used disk management tasks on the external disk arrays. With the NAS Manager, you can list available disks, rescan for disks, create a hot spare, free a hot spare, and force a disk online.
NOTE: See “Advanced Disk and Volume Management Using Array Manager” for advance operations on all RAID controllers.
Listing Available Disks
1On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
2On the Disks page, select the Disks.
3In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
4On the Tasks list, click Select....
A page titled with the adapter name that contains a list of disk drives displays.
Rescanning for Disks
1On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
2On the Disks page, select the Disks.
3In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
4In the Tasks list, click Select....
5In the Tasks list on the adapter page, click Rescan....
Creating a Hotspare
1On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
2On the Disks page, select the Disks.
3In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
4In the Tasks list, click Select....
NAS Manager
