D-Link xStack Storage DSN-4000 Series, Software User'S Manual

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If you down a drive, you can use the Schedule tab in the System
Administration View to view or suspend this action (see section 6.2.4). A
down drive operation cannot be cancelled or deleted. To view the progress
of the down drive operation, refer to the Schedule tab in the System
Administration View.
5.2.3 Reserving Spare Drives
A spare is a drive that is present in the system but normally unused until another active
drive fails. At that time, the volumes from the failed drive are automatically rebuilt using
the spare drive.
Prior to initially using your system, you should reserve one ore more spare
drives. After a drive has been allocated to a volume, it can no longer be
reserved as spare.
To reserve spare drives:
1. In the Physical Storage View, select a drive in the Main Display.
A drive can be reserved as a spare so long as no volumes have been created
on the drive. If you select a drive that has volumes, the
Reserve Drive as
Spare option in step 2 will not be available.
2. Perform one of the following steps:
–
On the Physical Storage menu, click Reserve Drive as Spare.
–
Click Reserve Drive as Spare in the Physical Storage Actions panel.
–
Press the right mouse button and click Reserve Drive as Spare on the shortcut
menu.
A check mark appears next to
Reserve Drive as Spare
on the
Storage
menu, in the
Drive Actions
panel, and on the shortcut menu to show that the selected drive is
designated as a spare.
3. To remove the selected drive as a spare, perform any of the steps in step 2 to remove
the check mark.