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Likely Causes to Check | Corrective Actions |
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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. |
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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. |
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The physical disk is already part | A dedicated hot spare cannot be assigned to |
of a virtual disk | another virtual disk. |
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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 |
| hot spare must be a |
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Likely Causes to Check | Corrective Actions |
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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
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