NAS Manager 2-17
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 a vailable disks, r escan for dis ks,
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 Tas ks 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 Task s list, click Select....
5In the Task s 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 Task s list, click Select....