Intel AFCSASRISER User Guide - Page 127

Creating Hot Spares Hot spares are disk drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a virtual disk. There are two kinds of hot spares: 1) dedicated hot spares, which are available to one or more specified arrays or disk groups, and 2) global hot spares, which are available to any array or disk group defined on the controller. To create a global hot spare, follow these steps: 1. In the left panel of the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 window, right-click the icon of disk drive that is not assigned to a storage configuration. If it is assigned to a storage configuration, a check mark is displayed on the disk drive icon. 2. In the Menu, click the Go To -> Physical Drive tab and select Assign Global Hotspare, as shown in Figure 64. Figure 64. Assign Global Hotspare You normally create a dedicated hot spare when you create a new configuration with the Manual Configuration option. To add a dedicated hot spare to an existing array or disk group, follow these steps: 1. In the left panel of the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 window, click the icon of a disk drive that is not assigned to a storage configuration. If it is assigned to a storage configuration, a check mark is displayed on the disk drive icon. 2. In the Menu, click the Go To -> Physical Drive tab and select Assign Dedicated Hotspare, as shown in Figure 65. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 115