Assigning A Dedicated Hot Spare Or Pool Hot Spare; What Do The Hot Spare Icons Mean - Adaptec RAID 3085 User Manual

Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare or Pool Hot Spare

A dedicated hot spare is assigned to one or more specific logical drives. (A dedicated hot spare
that has been assigned to protect more than one logical drive is called a pool hot spare.)
Note:
You must create the logical drive before you can assign a dedicated hot spare.
To assign a dedicated or pool hot spare:
1
In the Enterprise View, click the controller on which you want a dedicated hot spare.
2
In the Physical Devices View, click the disk drive you want to designate as a hot spare. (See
Hot Spare Limitations on page 82
3
In the menu bar, select Actions, then click Create dedicated hot-spare drive for, then click
the name of the logical drive (in this example, Device 2).
A plus sign appears beside the selected disk drive, indicating that it's designated as a
dedicated hot spare. (A yellow plus sign indicates an error. See
Mean? on page 84 for help solving the problem.)
4
To use the same dedicated hot spare to protect another logical drive (create a pool hot
spare), repeat Step 2 and

What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?

Icon Explanation
Healthy global or dedicated hot spare
Error on hot spare:
Hot spare is not assigned to any logical
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drives
Hot spare is too small to protect the
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logical drive(s) it's assigned to
Global hot spare was designated before
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any logical drives were built
Hot spare has been built into a logical drive
after disk drive failure
Chapter 6: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares
for help selecting a disk drive.)
Hot spare
Step 3.
Action
No action required.
Create at least one logical drive on the same
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controller
Designate larger disk drive as hot spare
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Create at least one logical drive on the same
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controller
Designate replacement or other available disk
drive as new hot spare; remove 'hot spare'
designation from disk drive (see
Deleting a Dedicated Hot
84
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What Do the Hot Spare Icons
Removing or
Spare)