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3.15 Creating or Deleting Spare Drives
3.15.1 Creating Spare Drives
IMPORTANT: The following HDDs cannot be used for
spare drives.
- HDD that has been configured to any disk array
- HDD with partitions.
Spare drives are used to protect a redundant logical drive when hard disk drives in the logical
drive are defected. That is, if a hard disk drive in a redundant logical drive is defected, rebuild
can be done to a spare drive to substitute for the defected hard disk drive for protecting the
logical drive. Creating spare drives are required to use the PDM or transition feature.
Follow the procedure below to create spare drives.
1. Click Spare Drives in the Tree View.
2. Click the Create tab in the Management Window.
3. Set the following.
Spare Type Global: Available to any disk arrays
Dedicated: Available only to specified disk arrays
Revertible Check the checkbox if the transition feature is used (see "3.12
Transition").
Enable Media Patrol Check the checkbox.
Physical Drives Select HDDs to be specified as spare drives from HDDs in the
Available frame on the left side and click [>>]. The HDDs are
moved to the Selected frame on the right.
Dedicated Disk Arrays Specify disk arrays if Dedicated is selected as the spare type.