Pegasus R6, R4 Product Manual
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Spare Drives
Spare drive technology includes:
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Definition
A spare drive is a physical drive that you designate to automatically replace the
failed physical drive in a disk array. See “Creating a Spare Drive Manually” on
page 69.
The general recommendation is to:
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Provide at least one spare drive
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Configure the spares as
global revertible
spare drives
Options
There are several options you can specify for a spare drive:
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System Options
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Revertible
– Returns to its spare drive assignment after you replace the
failed physical drive in the disk array and run the Transition function.
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Media Patrol
– By default, Media Patrol runs on spare drives unless
you disable it.
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Spare Type
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Global
– Can be used by any disk array
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Dedicated
– Can be used only by the assigned disk array
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Media Type (type of physical drive)
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Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
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Solid State Drive (SSD)
Requirements
The spare drive must:
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Have adequate capacity to replace the largest physical drive in your disk
arrays.
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Be the same media type as the physical drives in your disk arrays.
A revertible spare drive requires:
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You to replace the failed physical drive in the disk array
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