Asus SCSI 320-0 Global Array Manager Transition Tool - Page 26

Designating Drives as Hot Spares, Hot Spares, Press <F4&gt, Objects Menu

Get Asus SCSI 320-0 PDF manuals and user guides View all Asus SCSI 320-0 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals

Page 26 highlights

Designating Drives as Hot Spares Hot Spares Hot spares are physical drives that are powered up along with the RAID drives and usually stay in a standby state. If a disk drive used in a RAID logical drive fails, a hot spare will automatically take its place and the data on the failed drive is reconstructed on the hot spare. Hot spares can be used for RAID levels 1, 3 5, 10, 30, and 50. Each MegaRAID controller supports up to eight hot spares. The methods for designating physical drives as hot spares are: • press while creating arrays in Easy, New or View/Add Configuration mode, or • From the Objects/Physical Drive menu, select a physical drive and press . Select Make HotSpare. Press When you choose any configuration option, a list of all physical devices connected to the current controller appears, as shown below: Press the arrow keys to choose a disk drive that has a READY indicator and press to designate the drive as a hot spare. The indicator will change to HOTSP. Objects Menu Select Objects from the Management menu, then select Physical Drive. A physical drive selection screen will appear. Select a disk drive and press to display the action menu for the drive. Press the arrow keys to select Make HotSpare and press . The indicator for the selected drive changes to HOTSP. 18 MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140
  • 141
  • 142
  • 143
  • 144
  • 145
  • 146
  • 147
  • 148
  • 149
  • 150
  • 151
  • 152
  • 153
  • 154
MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide
18
Designating Drives as Hot Spares
Hot Spares
Hot spares are physical drives that are powered up along with the RAID drives
and usually stay in a standby state. If a disk drive used in a RAID logical drive
fails, a hot spare will automatically take its place and the data on the failed drive
is reconstructed on the hot spare. Hot spares can be used for RAID levels 1, 3 5,
10, 30, and 50. Each MegaRAID controller supports up to eight hot spares.
The methods for designating physical drives as hot spares are:
•
press <F4> while creating arrays in Easy, New or View/Add Configuration
mode, or
•
From the Objects/Physical Drive menu, select a physical drive and press
<Enter>. Select Make HotSpare.
Press <F4>
When you choose any configuration option, a list of all physical devices
connected to the current controller appears, as shown below:
Press the arrow keys to choose a disk drive that has a READY indicator and
press <F4> to designate the drive as a hot spare. The indicator will change to
HOTSP.
Objects Menu
Select Objects from the Management menu, then select Physical Drive. A
physical drive selection screen will appear. Select a disk drive and press <Enter>
to display the action menu for the drive.
Press the arrow keys to select Make HotSpare and press <Enter>. The indicator
for the selected drive changes to HOTSP.