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Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PROe
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Managing Spare Drives
When a physical drive in a disk array fails and a spare drive of adequate capacity
is available, the disk array will begin to rebuild automatically using the spare
drive. See “Critical & Offline Disk Arrays” on page 239.
Spare drive management includes the following functions:
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Viewing a List of Spare Drives (page 111)
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Locating a Spare Drive (page 111)
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Creating a Spare Drive (page 112)
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Deleting Spare Drive (page 113)
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Making Spare Drive Settings (page 113)
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Running Spare Check (page 114)
Viewing a List of Spare Drives
To view a list of spare drives:
1.
Click the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2.
Click the Spare Drives
icon.
The information includes:
•
ID – The unique ID number assigned to the spare drive.
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Operational Status – OK is normal. Can also show Rebuilding, Transition
Running, PDM Running, or Offline.
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Physical Drive ID – The ID number of the physical drive in the subsystem
enclosure.
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Capacity – The data storage capacity of this spare drive.
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Revertible – Yes or No. A revertible spare drive automatically returns to its
spare drive assignment after the failed physical drive in the disk array is
replaced.
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Type – Global, can be used by any disk array. Dedicated, can only be used
by the assigned disk array.
•
Dedicated to Array – For dedicated spares, the disk array to which it is
assigned. Global spares show N/A.
Locating a Spare Drive
To locate a physical drive assigned as a spare drive in the VTrak subsystem
enclosure:
1.
Click the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2.
Click the Spare Drives
icon.
Summary of Contents for VTRAK M610p
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