3Ware 9550SXU-8LP User Guide - Page 37
Specifying a Hot Spare, Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs, Available Drives
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Specifying a Hot Spare Specifying a Hot Spare You can designate one of the Available Drives as a hot spare in 3BM. If a hot spare is specified and a redundant unit degrades, an event notification will be generated. The hot spare will automatically replace the failed drive without user intervention. To specify a hot spare 1 In the list of Available Drives, highlight the drive to use. 2 Type s to specify that the selected drive will be the hot spare. You'll see the words "Hot Spare" appear next to the drive in the Available Drives list. Figure 14. Hot Spare Indicated If a hot spare is already enabled, you can disable it by following the same process. Note: In order to replace a failed drive in a degraded unit, a hot spare drive must have the same or larger storage capacity than the failed drive. Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs By default, if you leave individual drives unconfigured (JBODs), they will not be available to the operating system. If you want to be able to use individual drives, configure them as single-disk units. If you have JBODs attached to an 8000 controller that you want to use with the 9000 controller, see "Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller" on page 164. www.3ware.com 27