Creating Or Deleting Spare Drives; Creating Spare Drives - NEC EXPRESS5800 User Manual

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3.15 Creating or Deleting Spare Drives

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

Revertible

Enable Media Patrol

Physical Drives

Dedicated Disk Arrays

Global: Available to any disk arrays

Dedicated: Available only to specified disk arrays

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

Transition").

Check the checkbox.

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.

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

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