Dell H810, H710P, H310 manual Replacing an Online Physical Disk

4Press the down-arrow key to select Remove Hot Spare from the list of actions and press <Enter>.

The physical disk is changed to the Ready state. The status of the physical disk is displayed under the heading State.

NOTE: Try to use physical disks of the same capacity in a specific virtual disk. If you use physical disks with different capacities in a virtual disk, all physical disks in the virtual disk are treated as if they have the capacity of the smallest physical disk.

5Select additional hot spares if desired and follow step 1 to step 4 to remove them.

Replacing an Online Physical Disk

In addition to the automatic Replace Member operation, you can manually replace any physical disk that is part of a virtual disk using the Replace Member functionality. Perform the following steps to replace a physical disk:

1In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and press the down-arrow key until Physical Disks is highlighted.

2Press the right-arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that are members of the virtual disk.

3Press the down-arrow key and highlight the desired physical disk you want to replace. Press <F2> to expand the list of allowed operations on the disk.

4Select Replace and then Start.

5Press the down-arrow to highlight a replacement disk and then press the spacebar to select the disk.

6Select OK to start the replacement.

NOTE: The replacement disk must be a hot spare or an unconfigured disk without a foreign configuration. It must have the same or greater capacity and should be of the same type as the disk it is replacing.

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