VTrak 15110 User Manual
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The
Dedicated
hot spare drive option requires you to designate an unassigned
disk drive as the hot spare for a specific disk array. This action is described under
Create, below.
Spare Drive List
To see a list of the current dedicated hot spare drives:
1.
Click on the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2.
Click on the VTrak
icon.
3.
Click on the Spare Drives
icon.
A list of spare drives displays the following information.
•
#
– This is the individual number of a spare drive.
•
Physical Drive ID
– This is the slot number of a physical drive that has
been designated as a spare drive.
•
Capacity
– This is the available data storage capacity of this physical
drive.
•
Spare Type
– All spare drives under this function are Dedicated spares.
•
Dedicated Disk Arrays
– The specific disk array to which this spare
drive is dedicated.
Create a Spare Drive
Make these two checks before proceding:
•
Click on the Settings tab under the Disk Array icon and verify that Auto
Rebuild is enabled (checked).
•
Click on the Physical Drives
icon under the Disk Array
icon and verify
the size of the physical drives in the disk array. You will need this information
to select a physical drive of adequate capacity.
To create a new dedicated hot spare drive:
1.
Click on the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2.
Click on the VTrak
icon.
3.
Click on the Spare Drives
icon.
4.
Click on the Create tab.
