Promise Technology EX8650A User Manual
SuperTrak EX Series User Manual
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Creating a Spare Drive
To create a spare drive:
1.
Click the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2.
Click the Spare Drives icon.
3.
Click the Create tab in Management View.
4.
Choose a spare type, Global or Dedicated.
5.
To make a revertible spare drive, check the Revertible box.
6.
To enable Media Patrol on this spare drive, check the Enable Media Patrol
box.
box.
7.
In the Physical drives field, highlight the physical drive you want to assign as
a spare drive in the Available list and press the >> button to move the drive
to the Selected list.
You can also double-click drives to move them.
a spare drive in the Available list and press the >> button to move the drive
to the Selected list.
You can also double-click drives to move them.
8.
If you chose a Dedicated spare drive, in the Dedicated to Disk Arrays field,
highlight disk array to which you want assign the spare drive from the
Available list and press the >> button to move the array to the Selected list.
You can also double-click arrays to move them.
highlight disk array to which you want assign the spare drive from the
Available list and press the >> button to move the array to the Selected list.
You can also double-click arrays to move them.
9.
Click the Update button.
Your choices are displayed under New Hot Spare Drives.
Your choices are displayed under New Hot Spare Drives.
10. If you agree with the proposed choices, click the Submit button.
Important
•
There must be an unconfigured physical drive available to
assign as a spare drive. See “Viewing a List of Physical
Drives” on page 122.
assign as a spare drive. See “Viewing a List of Physical
Drives” on page 122.
•
Be sure the spare drive you choose has capacity equal to or
greater than the smallest physical drive assigned to the disk
array.
greater than the smallest physical drive assigned to the disk
array.