Dell 6 series User Manual page 102

• Performing the Replace Member operation
• Setting the LED to blink
• Making a disk online or offline (unaffiliated with a disk group)
• Creating global hot spares
• Removing dedicated hot spares or global hot spares
Physical Disk Actions
Table 6-5 describes the actions you can perform on physical disks.
For procedures that can be used to perform these actions, see "Physical Disk
Management" on page 105.
Table 6-5. Physical Disk Actions
Action
Rebuild
Replace Member
LED Blinking
Force Online
Force Offline
Make Global HS
Remove HS
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Configuring and Managing RAID
Description
Regenerates all data to a replacement disk in a redundant
virtual disk (RAID level 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60) after a disk
failure. A disk rebuild normally occurs without interrupting
normal operations on the affected virtual disk.
Replaces the drive in the virtual disk with another drive that
can be selected.
Indicates when physical disks are being used to create a virtual
disk. You can choose to start or stop the LED blinking.
Changes the state of the selected physical disk to online.
Changes the state of the selected physical disk so that it is no
longer part of a virtual disk.
Designates the selected physical disk as a global hot spare.
A global hot spare is part of a pool for all virtual disks
controlled by the controller.
Designates the selected physical disk as a global hot spare.
You can select the hot spare to have enclosure affinity.
Removes a dedicated hot spare from its disk group or a global
hot spare from the global pool of hot spares.