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NAS Manager 2-17
Managing Disks
The NAS Manager allows you to perform the most often used disk management tasks on
the external disk arrays. With the NAS Manager, you can list available disks, rescan for disks,
create a hot spare, free a hot spare, and force a disk online.
NOTE: See “Advanced Disk and Volume Management Using Array Manager” for advance
operations on all RAID controllers.
Listing Available Disks
1 On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
2 On the Disks page, select the Disks.
3 In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the
adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
4 On the Ta s ks list, click Select....
A page titled with the adapter name that contains a list of disk drives displays.
Rescanning for Disks
1 On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
2 On the Disks page, select the Disks.
3 In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the
adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
4 In the Ta s ks list, click Select....
5 In the Ta s ks list on the adapter page, click Rescan....
Creating a Hotspare
1 On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
2 On the Disks page, select the Disks.
3 In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the
adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
4 In the Ta s ks list, click Select....