Physical Disk Management; Setting Led Blinking; Creating Global Hot Spares; Removing Global Or Dedicated Hot Spares - Dell PowerEdge H730P User Manual

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.
Following the below procedures to set LED Blinking:
1. Press <Ctrl> <N> to access the PD Mgmt screen.
A list of physical disks is displayed. The status of the each disk is displayed 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.
Perform the following steps to create global hot spares:
1. Press the down-arrow key to highlight a physical disk to change to a global hot spare.
2. Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.
3. Press the down-arrow key to highlight Make Global HS and press <Enter>.
The physical disk is changed to a global hot spare. The status of the physical disk as a global hot
spare is displayed under the heading State.
NOTE: To replace a failed physical disk global hot spares must use the same disk technology
and must be equal or greater in size.
NOTE: To change additional physical disks to global hot spares, follow step 1 to step 4.

Removing Global Or Dedicated Hot Spares

You can remove one global or dedicated hot spare at a time on the PD Mgmt screen. Perform the
following steps to remove a global hot spare or dedicated hot spare:
1. Press <Ctrl> <N> to access the PD Mgmt screen.
A list of physical disks is displayed. The status of the each disk is displayed under the heading State.
2. Press the down-arrow key to highlight a physical disk that is a hot spare.
3. Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.
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