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Configuring and Managing RAID
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4
Press the down-arrow key to select Remove Hot Spare from the list of
actions and press <Enter>.
The physical disk is changed to the
Ready state. The status of the physical
disk is displayed under the heading State .
NOTE:
Try to use physical disks of the same capacity in a specific virtual disk.
If you use physical disks with different capacities in a virtual disk, all physical
disks in the virtual disk are treated as if they have the capacity of the smallest
physical disk.
5
Select additional hot spares if desired and follow step 1 to step 4 to
remove them.
Replacing an Online Physical Disk
In addition to the automatic Replace Member operation, you can manually
replace any physical disk that is part of a virtual disk using the Replace
Member functionality. Perform the following steps to replace a physical disk:
1
In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and press
the down-arrow key until Physical Disks is highlighted.
2
Press the right-arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that are
members of the virtual disk.
3
Press the down-arrow key and highlight the desired physical disk you want
to replace. Press <F2> to expand the list of allowed operations on this
disk.
4
Select Replace and then Start .
5
Press the down-arrow to highlight a replacement disk and then press the
spacebar to select the disk.
6
Select OK to start the replacement.
NOTE:
The replacement disk must be a hot spare or an unconfigured disk without a
foreign configuration. It must have the same or greater capacity and should be of
the same type as the disk it is replacing.
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