Adaptec 5325302053 User Guide - Page 69

What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean? Icon Explanation Healthy global or dedicated hot spare Action No action required. Hot spare is too small to protect the pool(s) it's assigned to Hot spare has been built into a pool after disk drive failure Designate larger disk drive as hot spare Designate replacement or other available disk drive as new hot spare Deleting a Hot Spare You can delete a hot spare. You may want to do this to: • Make disk drive space available for a pool or logical device. • Remove the 'hot spare' designation from a disk drive that is no longer being used as a hot spare. To remove or delete a hot spare: 1 In the Enterprise View, select the iSCSI Storage Appliance associated with the hot spare. 2 In the Physical Devices View, click the hot spare. 3 In the Actions menu bar, click Delete hot-spare drive. The hot spare is deleted and the disk drive becomes available for other uses in your IP SAN. Backing Up Your Data with Snapshots Note To create snapshots on systems running Windows XP, Linux, or VMware, you must use the CLI (see page 179.) Snapshots created on these OSs are failconsistent only, as the VSS Provider is not supported by the OSs. We can now use Target Based Snapshots in Windows XP and Linux operating systems. Adaptec Storage Manager's snapshot feature creates a frozen copy of a volume at a point in time. A snapshot sets up a link between the source volume and the underlying logical devices in your iSCSI Storage Appliance. When data on the source volume changes, the differences are captured on the snapshot drive. If an error occurs on the volume, you can roll back the volume to the point in time when the snapshot was created. You can also use the snapshot feature for tape backup, drive cloning, and multi-server rollout.