Creating Hotspare Drives

> Creating Hotspare Drives

> Hotspares are drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60 virtual drive. Dedicated hot spares can be used to replace failed drives in a selected drive group only. Global hot spares are available to any virtual drive on a specific controller.

> To add a dedicated or global hotspare drive, follow these steps:

> 1. | Select the Physical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu, and click the icon of an unused drive.

> For each drive, the window displays the port number, enclosure number, slot number, drive state, drive capacity, and drive manufacturer.

> 2. | Either select Go To > Physical Drive > Assign Global Hot Spare, or select Go To > Physical Drive > Assign Dedicated Hot Spare.

> 3. | Perform one of these actions:

> | If you selected Assign Dedicated Hotspare, select a drive group from the list that appears. The hotspare is dedicated to the drive group that you select.

> | If you selected Assign Global Hotspare, skip this step, and go to the next step. The hotspare is available to any virtual drive on a specific controller.

> NOTE The Assign Global Hot Spare option is not supported if High Availability clustering is supported on the controller.

> 4. | Click Go to create the hotspare.

> The drive state for the drive changes to dedicated or global hotspare, depending on your selection.

DB15-000988-08-December 2013
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