VTrak 15110 User Manual
The Dedicated hot spare drive option requires you to designate an unassigned disk drive as the hot spare for a specific disk array. This action is described under Create, below.
Spare Drive List
To see a list of the current dedicated hot spare drives:
1.Click on the Subsystem 
icon in Tree View.
2.Click on the VTrak 
icon.
3.Click on the Spare Drives 
icon.
A list of spare drives displays the following information.
•# – This is the individual number of a spare drive.
•Physical Drive ID – This is the slot number of a physical drive that has been designated as a spare drive.
•Capacity – This is the available data storage capacity of this physical drive.
•Spare Type – All spare drives under this function are Dedicated spares.
•Dedicated Disk Arrays – The specific disk array to which this spare drive is dedicated.
Create a Spare Drive
Make these two checks before proceding:
•Click on the Settings tab under the Disk Array 
icon and verify that Auto Rebuild is enabled (checked).
•Click on the Physical Drives 
icon under the Disk Array 
icon and verify the size of the physical drives in the disk array. You will need this information to select a physical drive of adequate capacity.
To create a new dedicated hot spare drive:
1.Click on the Subsystem 
icon in Tree View.
2.Click on the VTrak 
icon.
3.Click on the Spare Drives 
icon.
4.Click on the Create tab.
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