Designating Drives As Hotspares - Intergraph InterRAID-8e Hardware User's Manual

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Designating Drives as Hotspares

Hotspares are physical drives that are powered up with the RAID drives, and usually stay in
a standby state. If a disk drive used in a RAID logical drive fails, a hotspare will
automatically take its place and the data on the failed drive is reconstructed on the hotspare.
Hotspares can be used for level 1, 3 and 5 RAID. Each MegaRAID controller supports up to
eight hotspares. There are two methods for designating physical drives as hotspares:
u
Press
F4
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From the Objects/Physical Drive menu, select a physical drive and press
select Make Hotspare.
When you choose any configuration option, a list of all physical devices connected to the
current controller displays, as shown below:
Press the arrow keys to highlight a disk drive that has a READY indicator and press
designate the drive as a hotspare. The indicator changes to HOTSP. The second method for
designating physical drives as hotspares is to select Objects from the Management menu, and
then select Physical Drive. A physical drive selection screen will appear. Select a disk drive
and press
ENTER
while creating arrays in Easy, New or View/Add Configuration mode.
to display the action menu for the drive.
. Then,
ENTER
to
F4