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Protecting Your Data with Hot Spares
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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.
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