Deleting Spare Drive; Making Spare Drive Settings - Promise Technology 1000f series Product Manual

10. If you selected a Dedicated spare drive, in the Dedicated to Disk Arrays field,
highlight disk arrays to which you want assign the spare drive from the
Available list and press the >> button to move the array to the Selected list.
You can also double-click arrays to move them.
11. Click the Update button.
Your choices are displayed under New Hot Spare Drives.
12. If you agree with the proposed choices, click the Submit button.

Deleting Spare Drive

To delete a spare drive:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Spare Drives
3. Click the Delete tab in Management View.
4. Check the box to the left of the spare drive you want to delete.
5. Click the Submit button.
In the confirmation box, type the word confirm in the field provided.
6. Click the OK button.

Making Spare Drive Settings

The Spare Drive–Settings tab enables you to change the settings of an existing
spare drive. To change spare drive settings:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Spare Drives
3. Click the Spare Drive
4. Click the Settings tab in Management View.
5. Choose a spare type, Global or Dedicated.
Global can be used by any disk array. Dedicated can only be used by the
assigned disk arrays
6. To make a revertible spare drive, check the Revertible box.
A revertible spare drive automatically returns to its spare drive assignment
after the failed physical drive in the disk array is replaced.
If an existing spare drive has the wrong parameters for your
needs, click the Settings tab to change the parameters rather
than delete the spare drive and create a new one.
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