Use the options in the Hot Spare dialog to assign or unassign . A hot spare disk drive contains no data and acts as a standby in case any disk drive fails in a , , , or in the . The hot spare disk drive adds another level of to the storage subsystem.
Keep these important guidelines in mind when assigning hot spare disk drives:
You can use only with as hot spare disk drives.
You can unassign only hot spare disk drives with Optimal, Standby status. You cannot unassign a hot spare disk drive taking
over for a failed disk drive.
If a hot spare disk drive is not in Optimal status, follow the Recovery Guru procedures for correcting any problem before
trying to unassign the disk drive.
Hot spare disk drives must be of the same as the disk drives that they are protecting.
Hot spare disk drives must have capacities equal to or larger than the used capacity on the disk drives that they are protecting.
disk drives provide coverage for both security capable and non-security capable disk drives. Non-security capable disk drives
can provide coverage only for other non-security capable disk drives.
Select Disk Drive >> Hot Spare Coverage.
Select one of these options:
View/change current hot spare coverage – Select this option to open the Hot Spare Disk Drive dialog. This option is always available.
Automatically assign disk drives – Select this option to create hot spare disk drives automatically for the best hot spare coverage using available disk drives.
This option is always available.
Manually assign individual disk drives – Select this option to create hot spare disk drives out of the selected disk drives. This option is available only if disk
drives have been selected in the Physical pane.
Manually unassign individual disk drives – Select this option to unassign the selected hot spare disk drives. The option is available only if disk drives have been
selected in the Physical pane.
Click OK.
To unassign a hot spare disk drive, type yes, and click OK.