# Adding Hot Spares to the Existing Drive Group

To add hot spares to the drive group, you should have already added the required physical drives to the drive group.

Perform the following steps to add hot spares to the drive group.

1. On the Server dashboard or the Controller dashboard, select Configure > Advanced Configuration.
   The Advanced Configuration window opens.
2. Click Add Hot Spares to add dedicated hot spare drives to the drive group.
   The Available Unconfigured Drives window appears which lists the drives that can be added as hot spares.
   You can either select each hot spare individually or select all the hot spares based on type of physical drive that you have selected to add to the drive group.
3. Perform one of the following actions:
   1. Click on the corresponding check box of a hot spare drive to add it to the drive group.
   2. Click on the check box that is located on the very first row to select the all the hot spare drives to add them to the drive group.
      Figure 1. Available Unconfigured Drives – Hot Spares
4. Click Add Hot Spares to add dedicated hot spare drives to the drive group.