Table 7-11. Cannot Assign a Dedicated Hot Spare to a Virtual Disk

Likely Causes to Check

Corrective Actions

 

 

The RAID level does not allow a

Hot spares cannot be created for Volume or RAID 0

dedicated hot spare to be created

virtual disks.

 

 

The designated physical disk

The capacity of the physical disk selected to be a

does not have sufficient capacity

dedicated hot spare must be equal to or larger than

to be a dedicated hot spare

the capacity of the smallest physical disk in the

 

virtual disk.

 

For example, if the physical disk selected for a

 

dedicated hot spare is 160 GB, and the physical

 

disks in the virtual disk are 80 GB, 160 GB, and

 

500 GB, a dedicated hot spare can be assigned.

 

That is because the physical disk selected for the

 

dedicated hot spare is larger than the smallest

 

(80 GB) physical disk in the virtual disk.

 

 

The physical disk is already part

A dedicated hot spare cannot be assigned to

of a virtual disk

another virtual disk.

 

 

The physical disks are of

The physical disk used as a dedicated spare must be

different types

the same type as the physical disks that are already

 

part of the virtual disk. For example, if a virtual disk

 

consists of SATA-II physical disks, the dedicated

 

hot spare must be a SATA-II physical disk.

 

Table 7-12. Cannot Create a Global Hot Spare

 

 

Likely Causes to Check

Corrective Actions

 

 

There are no empty physical

Install additional physical disks and initialize them.

disks available or the physical

If existing physical disks have a status of New they

disks have not been initialized

need to be initialized.

WARNING: When a physical disk is initialized, all data on the physical disk is lost.

NOTE: A physical disk with a Non-Raidstatus can be initialized, if desired, but it is no longer Non-Raid(initialization adds PERC S100 adapter/PERC S300 adapter configuration information to the physical disk).

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