Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes Managing Hot Spare Disks | SAS2 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide |
| Figure 6: | Manage Array Window | |
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| The Manage Hot Spares window appears. | |
| 6. | Identify a disk that is not part of a RAID volume (i.e., the value in the Drive Status | |
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| column is not RAID) and that is not already identified as a hot spare disk. | |
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| A global hot spare disk must have | |
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| disk type must be either SATA with extended command set support or SAS with | |
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| SMART support. | |
| 7. | Select the Hot Spr (Hot Spare) field for this disk, and press the space bar. | |
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| The Hot Spare status changes to Yes. | |
| 8. | (Optional) Repeat the preceding step to select a second global hot spare disk | |
| 9. | Press C to create the hot spare disk. | |
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| A menu window appears. An error message appears if the selected disk is not at | |
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| least as large as the smallest disk used in the existing volume(s). An error message | |
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| also appears if you try to add a SATA disk as a hot spare for volumes that use SAS | |
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| disks, or vice versa. | |
| 10. Select Save changes then exit this menu to create the hot spare disk(s). | ||
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| The SAS2 BIOS CU pauses while it configures the global hot spares. | |
3.3.2 Deleting Hot Spare Disks | Follow these steps to delete a global hot spare disk: | ||
| 1. | Access the Manage Hot Spares window by following steps 1 through 5 of the | |
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| previous section. | |
| 2. | Select a hot spare disk for deletion, and press C. | |
| 3. | Select Save changes then exit this menu to commit the changes. | |
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| The configuration utility pauses while it removes the global hot spare. | |
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