Managing The Spare Pool; Adding A Drive To The Spare Pool - Adaptec 2110S User Manual

Adaptec Storage Manager Pro User's Guide
You can assign spares by adding a drive to the spare pool.
See Spare Management Guidelines on page 7-4 for important
information and suggestions.

Managing the Spare Pool

You can assign spare disk drives to the spare pool. If a failure occurs,
the controller checks the spare pool for a spare drive with sufficient
space for one or more arrays on the failing drive.
Because of the total flexibility you have in managing spares, you
must monitor your spares regularly to ensure that you have the level
of spare security that you need. See Spare Management Guidelines on
page 7-4 for suggestions.
There are two parts to managing the spare pool on the controller:
I Adding a drive to the spare pool. See page 7-2.
I Removing a drive from the spare pool. See page 7-3.

Adding a Drive to the Spare Pool

To add a drive to the spare pool:
1
In the System Browser window, select the controller to which
you want to add a spare.
2
Click Manage Spare Pool.
The Manage Spare Pool dialog box appears. The Available
Drives list shows all drives attached to the controller that have
free space. The Selected Drives list shows all drives currently
assigned to the spare pool on the controller.
7-2