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Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes

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Managing Hot Spare Disks

SAS2 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide

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LSI Corporation Confidential

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August 2010

Figure 6:

Manage Array Window

The Manage Hot Spares window appears.

6.

Identify a disk that is not part of a RAID volume (i.e., the value in the Drive Status

column is not

RAID

) and that is not already identified as a hot spare disk.

A global hot spare disk must have 512-byte blocks and nonremovable media. The

disk type must be either SATA with extended command set support or SAS with

SMART support.

7.

Select the

Hot Spr

(Hot Spare) field for this disk, and press the space bar.

The

Hot Spare

status changes to

Yes

.

8.

(Optional) Repeat the preceding step to select a second global hot spare disk

9.

Press

C

to create the hot spare disk.

A menu window appears. An error message appears if the selected disk is not at

least as large as the smallest disk used in the existing volume(s). An error message

also appears if you try to add a SATA disk as a hot spare for volumes that use SAS

disks, or vice versa.

10. Select

Save changes then exit this menu

to create the hot spare disk(s).

The SAS2 BIOS CU pauses while it configures the global hot spares.

3.3.2

Deleting Hot Spare Disks

Follow these steps to delete a global hot spare disk:

1.

Access the Manage Hot Spares window by following steps 1 through 5 of the

previous section.

2.

Select a hot spare disk for deletion, and press

C

.

3.

Select

Save changes then exit this menu

to commit the changes.

The configuration utility pauses while it removes the global hot spare.

Section	Page
SAS2 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide	1
Introduction to the Integrated RAID Solution	5
1.1 Overview	5
1.2 Benefits and Features	6
1.2.1 Host Interface	6
1.2.2 Metadata Support	6
1.2.3 SMART Support	6
1.2.4 Fusion-MPT Support	6
Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes	7
2.1 Introduction	7
2.2 Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Features	7
2.3 Operation of Mirrored Volumes	8
2.4 Mirrored Volume Features	11
2.4.1 Resynchronization with Concurrent Host I/O Operation	11
2.4.2 Hot Swapping	11
2.4.3 Hot Spare Disk	11
2.4.4 Online Capacity Expansion	11
2.4.5 Media Verification	11
2.4.6 Disk Write Caching	12
2.4.7 NVSRAM Usage	12
2.4.8 Background Initialization	12
2.4.9 Consistency Check	12
2.4.10 Make Data Consistent	12
Creating Mirrored Volumes	13
3.1 Mirrored Volume Configuration Overview	13
3.2 Creating Mirrored Volumes	13
3.2.1 Creating an Integrated Mirroring Volume	14
3.2.2 Creating an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced or Integrated Mirroring + Striping Volume	15
3.2.3 Expanding an Integrated Mirroring Volume with OCE	16
3.3 Managing Hot Spare Disks	17
3.3.1 Creating Hot Spare Disks	17
3.3.2 Deleting Hot Spare Disks	18
3.4 Other Configuration Tasks	19
3.4.1 Viewing Volume Properties	19
3.4.2 Running a Consistency Check	19
3.4.3 Activating an Array	20
3.4.4 Deleting an Array	20
3.4.5 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume	21
3.4.6 Selecting a Boot Disk	21
Overview of Integrated Striping	23
4.1 Introduction	23
4.2 Integrated Striping Features	23
4.3 Integrated Striping Description	24
Creating Integrated Striping Volumes	25
5.1 Integrated Striping Configuration Overview	25
5.2 Creating Integrated Striping Volumes	25
5.3 Other Configuration Tasks	27
5.3.1 Viewing Volume Properties	27
5.3.2 Activating an Array	27
5.3.3 Deleting an Array	28
5.3.4 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume	28
5.3.5 Selecting a Boot Disk	29
Using the SAS2 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility	31
A.1 Hardware and Software Requirements	31
A.1.1 Controller Support	31
A.1.2 Operating System and Software Support	32
A.2 Interface Description	32
A.3 Commands	32
A.3.1 Common Command-Line Parameters	33
A.3.2 CREATE Command	33
A.3.3 DELETE Command	35
A.3.4 DISPLAY Command	35
A.3.5 HOTSPARE Command	37
A.3.6 STATUS Command	38
A.3.7 LIST Command	39
A.3.8 MFGPAGE Command	40
A.3.9 CONSTCHK Command	40
A.3.10 ACTIVATE Command	40
A.3.11 LOCATE Command	41

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The Manage Hot Spares window appears.

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