NEC EXPRESS5800 User Manual

 

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IMPORTANT: The following HDDs cannot be used for 
spare drives.   
- HDD that has been configured to any disk array   
- HDD with partitions. 

Spare drives are used to protect a redundant logical drive when hard disk drives in the logical 
drive are defected. That is, if a hard disk drive in a redundant logical drive is defected, rebuild 
can be done to a spare drive to substitute for the defected hard disk drive for protecting the 
logical drive. Creating spare drives are required to use the PDM or transition feature. 

Follow the procedure below to create spare drives. 

1. Click Spare Drives in the Tree View. 

2. Click the Create tab in the Management Window. 

 

3. Set the following. 

Spare Type 

Global: Available to any disk arrays 
Dedicated: Available only to specified disk arrays 

Revertible 

Check the checkbox if the transition feature is used (see "3.12 
Transition"). 

Enable Media Patrol 

Check the checkbox. 

Physical Drives 

Select HDDs to be specified as spare drives from HDDs in the 
Available frame on the left side and click [>>]. The HDDs are 
moved to the Selected frame on the right. 

Dedicated Disk Arrays 

Specify disk arrays if Dedicated is selected as the spare type.