designation even though it can no longer protect the logical drives it's assigned to. See
Recovering
from a Disk Drive Failure
on page 109.
To delete a global hot spare:
1. In the Enterprise View, select a controller then, in the Physical Devices tree, select the hot spare
itself.
2. On the ribbon, in the Physical Disk group, click Unassign Spare.
The Unassign Spare window opens.
3. Click Unassign.
The hot spare is deleted and the drive becomes available for other uses in your storage space.
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare
You can delete a dedicated hot spare or remove it from a logical drive. You may want to do this to:
• Make disk drive space available for another logical drive.
• Make a dedicated hot spare into a global hot spare.
• Remove the ‘hot spare’ designation from a disk drive that is no longer being used as a hot spare.
Note: When a hot spare is built into a logical drive after a disk drive failure, it
retains its ‘hot spare’ designation even though it can no longer protect the logical
drives it's assigned to. See
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
on page 109 for
more information.
To remove or delete a dedicated hot spare:
1. In the Enterprise View, select a controller then, in the Physical Devices tree, select the dedicated
spare itself.
2. On the ribbon, in the Physical Disk group, click Unassign Spare.
The Unassign Spare window opens.
3. Select the logical drive from which to remove or delete the dedicated spare, then click Unassign.
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