Assigning and Unassigning Hot Spare Disk Drives

Keep these important guidelines in mind when you assign hot spare disk drives:


Important:

You can assign only Optimal status to unassigned disk drives hot spare disk drives. If a hot spare disk drive is not in Optimal status, follow the Recovery Guru procedures to correct the problem before you try to unassign the disk drive. You cannot assign a hot spare disk drive if it is in use (taking over for a failed disk drive).

  1. Choose one of these options:
  2. Select one or more disk drives from the Physical pane from the available unassigned disk drives.
  3. Select Disk Drive >> Hot Spare >> Assign .
    The disk drive changes from unassigned to standby hot spare. The disk drive capacity is added to the Unconfigured Capacity node in the Logical pane.
  4. In the Physical pane of the Logical/Physical tab, select one or more standby hot spare disk drives.
  5. Select Disk Drive >> Hot Spare >> Unassign .
    The disk drive changes from standby hot spare to unassigned. The disk drive's capacity is added to the Unconfigured Capacity node in the Logical pane.

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