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•Right-click the physical disk and select Hot Spare Coverage from the pop-up menu.

The Hot Spare Physical Disk Options window is displayed.

4Select the appropriate option, you can select:

•View/change current hot spare coverage—to review hot spare coverage and to assign or unassign hot spare physical disks, if necessary. See step 5.

•Automatically assign physical disks— to create hot spare physical disks automatically for the best hot spare coverage using available physical disks.

•Manually assign individual physical disks—to create hot spare physical disks out of the selected physical disks on the Physical tab.

•Manually unassign individual physical disks—to unassign the selected hot spare physical disks on the Physical tab. See step 12.

5To assign hot spares, in the Hot Spare Coverage window, select a disk group in the Hot spare coverage area.

6Review the information about the hot spare coverage in the Details area.

7Click Assign.

The Assign Hot Spare window is displayed.

8Select the relevant physical disks in the Unassigned physical disks area, as hot spares for the selected disk and click OK.

9To unassign hot spares, in the Hot Spare Coverage window, select the physical disks in the Hot spare physical disks area.

10Review the information about the hot spare coverage in the Details area.

11Click Unassign.

A message prompts you to confirm the operation.

12Type yes and click OK.

Hot Spares and Rebuild

A valuable strategy to protect data is to assign available physical disks in the storage array as hot spares. A hot spare adds another level of fault tolerance to the storage array.

Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks

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