Consistency Check On Virtual Drives; Assigning Hotspare - Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series User Manual

Consistency check on virtual drives

You need to execute consistency check using RAID utility, Server installation
and monitoring tool - internal storage monitor referring to Server installation
and monitoring tool User's Guide - internal storage monitoring functions
contained in the flash memory embedded in the system unit.
See the Hitachi Compute Blade Series Hitachi Compute Rack Series OS
Installation Guide for Windows Server or Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series
OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the flash memory
embedded in the server chassis for where it is.
Note:
• Consistency check can be executed with RAID 1 that has redundancy.
• When virtual drives are degraded, consistency check cannot be executed.
You need to execute consistency check after recovery.
• When a virtual drive is in initialization, consistency check is not available.
Complete initialization before executing consistency check on the virtual
drive.

Assigning Hotspare

This section describes the procedure for setting hotspare (reserve disks).
Note:
• Sure to configure redundant disk array, RAID 1, before setting hotspares.
• Install a hard disk in the virtual drive consisting of hard disks. Install an
SSD in the virtual drive consisting of SSDs. You cannot set a different disk
as a reserve disk.
1 Select Controller Management from the Main menu, and press Enter.
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2 Select a physical drive to set to hot spare and press Enter.
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Note: Only a physical drive whose status is "Unconfigured Good"
(unused) can be set as hot spare.
3 Select Operation and press Enter.
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4 Select Assign Global Hot Spare Drive and press Enter.
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5 Select Go and press Enter.
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