IBM Advanced SerialRAID Adapters SA33-3285-02, User Manual

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The Hot Spares Minimum field contains a default value of 1. This value defines the
minimum number of spares that can exist in the pool before an error condition is
logged. You should normally set this field to the number of hot spare disk drives that
you intend to assign to this pool. You can, however, set it to a lower number if you
do not want to be alerted when a single hot spare disk drive has been used (see
“Choosing the Error Threshold (Alarm) Level for a Hot Spare Pool” on page 51).
5. Select Components to Add and press the List key.
6. A list of valid hot spare pool candidates is displayed. This list contains RAID disk
drives, hot spare disk drives, and free disk drives that are now in pool zero on the
selected SSA loop.
Add a Hot Spare Pool
Ty --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pr|
Components to Add |
| |
| Move cursor to desired item and press F7. |
| ONE OR MORE items can be selected. |
| Press Enter AFTER making all selections. |
* | |
| # SSA physical disks that are members of an array. |
| # hdisk4 raid_10 |
| pdisk13 AC7AAB76 04-02-REGY-06-P 18.2GB good |
| pdisk3 AC7AA0B2 04-02-REGY-05-P 9.2GB good |
| pdisk7 AC7AA0BD 04-02-REGY-01-P 9.2GB good |
| # |
| # SSA physical disks that are hot spare disks. |
| pdisk9 AC7AA2D6 04-02-REGY-02-P 9.2GB |
| # |
| # SSA physical disks that are free. |
| # |
| |
| F1=HelpF2=Refresh F3=Cancel |
F1| F7=Select F8=Image F10=Exit |
F5| Enter=Do /=Find n=Find Next |
F9---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Select the disk drives that you want to add to the hot spare pool, and press Enter.
Notes:
a. If all the member disk drives of an hdisk are now in pool zero, you can select
the hdisk. This action adds all the member pdisks of the array to the hot spare
pool that you are creating. If some of the member pdisks of an hdisk have
already been assigned to another hot spare pool, the hdisk cannot be selected
and is shown with a comment # flag in front of it, as shown in the example
screen.
b. If a free disk is selected from the list it is converted to a hot spare disk drive
when it is added to the hot spare pool.
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