Physical Disk Management; Setting Led Blinking; Creating Global Hot Spares - Dell 6 series User Manual

The section "Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the Foreign
Configuration View Screen" on page 90 contains the procedures you can use
to manage the foreign configurations.
NOTE:
The BIOS Configuration Utility reports error codes for failed imports of
foreign configurations.

Physical Disk Management

Setting LED Blinking

The LED blinking option indicates when physical disks are being used to
create a virtual disk. You can choose to start or stop the LED blinking.
Perform the following steps to start or stop this option.
1 Press <Ctrl><N> to access the PD Mgmt screen.
A list of physical disks displays. The status of the each disk displays under
the heading State.
2 Press the down-arrow key to highlight a physical disk.
3 Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.
4 Press the down-arrow key to highlight LED Blinking.
5 Press the right-arrow key to display the available actions, Start and Stop.
6 Select Start to begin LED blinking or Stop to end LED blinking.

Creating Global Hot Spares

You can use a global hot spare to replace a failed physical disk in any
redundant array as long as the capacity of the global hot spare is equal to or
larger than the coerced capacity of the failed physical disk.
You can designate the hot spare to have enclosure affinity. This means that if
there are drive failures present on a split backplane configuration, then the
hot spare is first used on the backplane that it resides in.
Configuring and Managing RAID
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