Assign a Dedicated Hot Spare

About this task

Steps

  1. Select the disk in the Connector (channel or port) table that you want to use as the dedicated hot spare. On some controllers, more than one disk can be selected. The disks that you have selected as dedicated hot spares are displayed in the Disks currently configured as dedicated hot spare table.
  2. Click Apply Changes when ready.
    NOTE: On PERC controllers, if any of the selected physical drives are in the spun down state, a message is displayed indicating the IDs of the spun down state and the delay in performing tasks on them.
    NOTE: On software RAID controllers, a maximum of six drives can be assigned as dedicated hot spares for a virtual disk.