Adaptec 5325302053 - Snap Server 720i NAS, User Manual

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What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?
Deleting a Hot Spare
You can delete a hot spare. You may want to do this to:
• Make disk drive space available for a pool or logical device.
• Remove the ‘hot spare’ designation from a disk drive that is no longer being used
as a hot spare.
To remove or delete a hot spare:
1
In the Enterprise View, select the iSCSI Storage Appliance associated with the hot
spare.
2
In the Physical Devices View, click the hot spare.
3
In the
Actions
menu bar, click
Delete hot-spare drive
.
The hot spare is deleted and the disk drive becomes available for other uses in
your IP SAN.
Backing Up Your Data with Snapshots
Note
To create snapshots on systems running Windows XP, Linux, or VMware,
you must use the CLI (see page 179.) Snapshots created on these OSs are fail-
consistent only, as the VSS Provider is not supported by the OSs. We can now use
Target Based Snapshots in Windows XP and Linux operating systems.
Adaptec Storage Manager’s
snapshot feature creates a frozen copy of a volume at a
point in time. A snapshot sets up a link between the source volume and the
underlying logical devices in your iSCSI Storage Appliance. When data on the
source volume changes, the differences are captured on the snapshot drive.
If an error occurs on the volume, you can roll back the volume to the point in time
when the snapshot was created. You can also use the snapshot feature for tape
backup, drive cloning, and multi-server rollout.
Icon Explanation Action
Healthy global or dedicated hot spare No action required.
Hot spare is too small to protect the
pool(s) it’s assigned to Designate larger disk drive as hot spare
Hot spare has been built into a pool
after disk drive failure Designate replacement or other available
disk drive as new hot spare