HP D5970A - NetServer - LCII Installation And Configuration Manual page 68

Chapter 5
To assign physical drives to an existing (not new) array:
1. Click one or more Ready physical drives to select (or deselect) them.
2. Drag the drives into the existing array. All selected Ready drives will be
added to the array.
Drives cannot be removed selectively from an existing array, but the entire array
can be undone. An array cannot be reclaimed if it has any logical drives defined.
To remove an entire array:
1. Select the array. (Make sure that nothing else is selected.)
2. Click the Reclaim button.
3. Click OK.
Hot Spares
Hot spares can be assigned to the global hot spare pool for the adapter, or they
can be dedicated to a specific array. Only one hot spare can be dedicated to a
given array.
To assign a dedicated hot spare:
1. Select a Ready physical drive. Be sure nothing else is selected.
2. Click the Add Spare button. The Hot Spare Target window appears.
3. Click the Dedicated to button, and then click on the down arrow to
display a list of valid arrays.
4. Click the array to which you want to dedicate the hot spare.
5. Click OK.
6. Continue defining arrays and hot spares.
To reclaim (undo) one or more hot spares:
1. Select one or more hot spares.
2. Click the Reclaim button to convert the hot spares to Ready physical
drives.
When you are finished defining arrays and hot spares:
Click the Next button.
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