Setting Emergency Spare Properties - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
3. To enable or disable spinning down of configured drives, highlight Spin Down Configured Drives and press
Enter. Select either Enabled or Disabled and press Enter.
4. To specify a drive's idle time, after which the drive goes into the power save mode, highlight Drive Standby Time
and press Enter. Specify the time duration and press Enter.
The drive standby time can be 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1.30 hours, or 2 hours through 24 hours.
5. To select the desired power-save mode, highlight Power Save Mode and press Enter. Select a mode (None, Auto,
Max, and Max without Cache) and press Enter.
6. To specify the maximum number of drives that spin up simultaneously, highlight Spinup Drive Count and press
Enter. Specify a numeric value and press Enter.
7. To control the interval (in seconds) between spin up of drives connected to the controller, highlight Spinup
Delay and press Enter. Specify the time in seconds and press Enter.
The delay prevents a drain on the system's power supply that would occur if all drives spun up at the same time.
8. If you do not want to schedule the drive active time, highlight Do Not Schedule Drive Active Time and press
Enter.
9. To specify the Quality of Service window start time, highlight Qos Window Start Time and pres Enter. Specify a
start time and press Enter.
10. To specify the Quality of Service window end time, highlight Qos Window End Time and press Enter. Specify a
end time and press Enter.
11. Highlight Apply Changes and press Enter. The new settings are saved in the controller properties.
5.4.13

Setting Emergency Spare Properties

The following dialog appears when you select Spare from the Advanced Controller Properties dialog.
Figure 91 Spare
When a drive within a redundant virtual drive fails or is removed, the MegaRAID firmware automatically rebuilds the
redundancy of the virtual drive by providing a emergency spare drive, even if no commissionable dedicated drive or
global hot spare drive is present.
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Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Controllers