Dell MD3600I, MD3620I owner manual Select Physical disk→ Hot Spare Coverage, 127

•The availability of enclosure loss protection for a disk group depends on the location of the physical disks that comprise the disk group. To make sure that enclosure loss protection is not affected, you must replace a failed physical disk to initiate the copyback process. See "Enclosure Loss Protection" on page 130.

CAUTION: If a hot spare physical disk does not have Optimal status, follow the Recovery Guru procedures to correct the problem before you try to unassign the physical disk. You cannot assign a hot spare physical disk if it is in use (taking over for a failed physical disk).

To assign or unassign hot spare physical disks:

1In the AMW, select the Physical tab.

2Select one or more physical disks.

3Perform one of these actions:

•Select Physical disk→ Hot Spare Coverage.

•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.

Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks

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