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Chapter 9: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares ● 93
What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?
Removing a Hot Spare
You can remove a global hot spare or dedicated hot spare. You may want
to do this to:
● Make disk drive space available for a logical drive.
● Make a dedicated hot spare into a global hot spare or a global hot
spare into a dedicated hot spare.
● Remove the ‘hot spare’ designation from a disk drive that is no
longer being used as a hot spare. (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 147
for more information.)
Icon Explanation Action
■ Healthy global or dedicated
hot spare
No action required.
■ Hot spare is not assigned to
any logical drives
■ Create at least one logical
drive on the same controller
■ Hot spare is too small to
protect the logical drive(s) it’s
assigned to
■ Designate larger disk drive as
hot spare
■ Global hot spare was
designated before any logical
drives were built
■ Create at least one logical
drive on the same controller
■ Hot spare has been built into a
logical drive after disk drive
failure
■ Designate replacement or
other available disk drive as
new hot spare; remove ‘hot
spare’ designation from disk
drive (see below)