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Designating a Global Hot Spare, Create global hot-spare drive

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Chapter 9: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares ● 91 Designating a Global Hot Spare This section describes how to designate a global hot spare before or after you build a logical drive. Note: To designate a global hot spare while you're creating a logical drive, see Step 6 on page 53. To designate a global hot spare: 1 In the Enterprise View, click the controller on which you want a global hot spare. 2 In the Physical Devices View, click the disk drive you want to designate as a hot spare. (See Hot Spare Limitations on page 90 for help selecting a disk drive.) 3 Click the Create global hot-spare drive button (shown at right). A plus sign appears beside the selected disk drive, indicating that it's designated as a hot spare. (A yellow plus sign indicates an error. See What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean? on page 93 for help solving the problem.) Hot spare Any other logical drives created on the controller will automatically be protected by that global hot spare.

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Chapter 9: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares
●
91
Designating a Global Hot Spare
This section describes how to designate a global hot spare before or
after you build a logical drive.
Note:
To designate a global hot spare while you’re creating a logical
drive, see
Step 6 on page 53
.
To designate a global hot spare:
1
In the Enterprise View, click the controller on which you want a
global hot spare.
2
In the Physical Devices View, click the disk drive you want to
designate as a hot spare. (See
Hot Spare Limitations
on page 90
for
help selecting a disk drive.)
3
Click the
Create global hot-spare drive
button (shown at right)
.
A plus sign appears beside the selected disk drive, indicating that it’s
designated as a hot spare. (A yellow plus sign indicates an error. See
What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?
on page 93
for help solving the
problem.)
Any other logical drives created on the controller will automatically
be protected by that global hot spare.
Hot spare