Adaptec Storage Manager Network Card User Manual


 
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)