NEC Express5800 3.15 Creating or Deleting Spare Drives, 3.15.1 Creating Spare Drives

3.15 Creating or Deleting Spare Drives

3.15.1 Creating Spare Drives

IMPORTANT: The following HDDs cannot be used for spare drives.

-HDD that has been configured to any disk array

-HDD with partitions.

Spare drives are used to protect a redundant logical drive when hard disk drives in the logical drive are defected. That is, if a hard disk drive in a redundant logical drive is defected, rebuild can be done to a spare drive to substitute for the defected hard disk drive for protecting the logical drive. Creating spare drives are required to use the PDM or transition feature.

Follow the procedure below to create spare drives.

1.Click Spare Drives in the Tree View.

2.Click the Create tab in the Management Window.

3. Set the following.

Spare Type	Global: Available to any disk arrays
	Dedicated: Available only to specified disk arrays
Revertible	Check the checkbox if the transition feature is used (see "3.12
	Transition").
Enable Media Patrol	Check the checkbox.
Physical Drives	Select HDDs to be specified as spare drives from HDDs in the
	Available frame on the left side and click [>>]. The HDDs are
	moved to the Selected frame on the right.
Dedicated Disk Arrays	Specify disk arrays if Dedicated is selected as the spare type.

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