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Manage your RAID array
The following features allow you to monitor and maintain your arrays to prevent any
critical failures from occurring:
•
Spare Pool
•
Email Notifications
•
SMART Monitoring
RAID Spare Pool
Physical drives marked as a spare will automatically be added to a redundant RAID
array (RAID levels 1, 10, 5, 50 and 6) whenever there is a disk failure. Enabling this
feature minimizes the chances of data loss since it reduces the time an array is in
critical status.
Add/Remove Spare Using WebGUI:
1.
Log in WebGUI
2.
Click
Logical
3.
Click
Spare Pool
4.
Check the box for the disk you want as a spare from
Available Disks
5.
Click
Add Spare
Disks added to the spare pool will show under
Spare Pool
and can be removed by
checking the disk checkbox from
Spare Pool
> Click
Remove Spare.