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Creating Hot Spares

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Figure 35 Make Configured Good 1. Select the JBOD drives to be configured as Unconfigured Good. 2. Click OK. The selected JBOD drives are configured as Unconfigured Good. Creating Hot Spares Hot spares are drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a redundant virtual drive (RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60). There are two kinds of hot spares: • Dedicated hot spares, which are available for a specified drive group • Global hot spares, which are available to any drive group defined on the controller Note: The capacity of the drives you assign as dedicated hot spares should be equal to or greater than the capacity of the other drives in the drive group. To create a global hot spare, follow these steps: 1. Select the Physical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen and click the icon of an unused drive. For each drive, the screen displays the port number, enclosure number, slot number, drive state, drive capacity, and drive manufacturer. 2. Select either Go To->Physical Drive->Assign Global Hot Spare or Go To->Physical Drive->Assign Dedicated Hot Spare. 3. If you selected Assign Dedicated Hot Spare, select a drive group from the list that appears. The hot spare is dedicated to the drive group that you selected. If you selected Assign Global Hot Spare, skip this step, and go to the step 4. The hot spare is available to any virtual drive on a specific controller. 4. Click Go to create the global hot spare. The drive state for the drive changes to dedicated hot spare or global hot spare, depending on your selection. DB09-000202-05 37857-02 Configuration Rev. F - May 2011 Copyright © 2011 by LSI Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 51

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Configuration
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DB09-000202-05 37857-02
Rev. F - May 2011
Copyright © 2011 by LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.
Figure 35
Make Configured Good
1.
Select the JBOD drives to be configured as Unconfigured Good.
2.
Click
OK
.
The selected JBOD drives are configured as Unconfigured Good.
Creating Hot Spares
Hot spares are drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a redundant virtual
drive (RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60). There are two kinds of hot spares:
•
Dedicated
hot spares, which are available for a specified drive group
•
Global
hot spares, which are available to any drive group defined on the controller
Note:
The capacity of the drives you assign as dedicated hot spares should be equal to or
greater than the capacity of the other drives in the drive group.
To create a
global
hot spare, follow these steps:
1.
Select the
Physical
tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu
screen and click the icon of an unused drive.
For each drive, the screen displays the port number, enclosure number, slot number, drive
state, drive capacity, and drive manufacturer.
2.
Select either
Go To->Physical Drive->Assign Global Hot Spare
or
Go To->Physical
Drive->Assign Dedicated Hot Spare
.
3.
If you selected
Assign Dedicated Hot Spare
, select a drive group from the list that appears.
The hot spare is dedicated to the drive group that you selected.
If you selected
Assign Global Hot Spare
, skip this step, and go to the step 4. The hot spare
is available to any virtual drive on a specific controller.
4.
Click
Go
to create the global hot spare.
The drive state for the drive changes to dedicated hot spare or global hot spare, depending
on your selection.