Defining Hot Spares

Hot spare disks can be defined to provide fault tolerance in RAIDs. A disk which has been marked as a hot spare will automatically take the place of a failed disks in any RAID.

To mark a disk as a hot spare:

1From the menu bar, select Storage - RAIDs.

2Click . The Storage - RAIDs - Hot Spares page will open:

3Tick the box(es) of disk(s) which you wish to mark as hot spare.

4Click to set the hot spare(s).

5Click to save the changes and return to the Storage - RAIDs page.

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Plasmon ii 97707987 Rev A manual Defining Hot Spares, Click . The Storage RAIDs Hot Spares page will open