Creating Or Deleting Spare Drive; Creating Spare Drive - NEC Express5800 Series User Manual

3.13 Creating or Deleting Spare Drive

3.13.1 Creating Spare Drive

IMPORTANT: Do not use the following hard disk drives
to create spare drives:
When a hard disk drive is defected in a redundant logical drive, a spare drive is used to protect
the logical drive. In actual, if a hard disk drive is defected in a redundant logical drive, a spare
drive is provided with rebuild to substitute for the defected hard disk drive for protecting the
logical drive.
Create a spare drive in the procedure below:
1. Click [Spare Drive View] in the Tree View.
2. Click the Create tab in the Management Window.
3. Select the type of the spare drive from [Spare Drive Type].
Global Spare:
Dedicated Spare:
4. Select a physical drive to be set to the spare drive.
Available physical drives are enclosed with black frames. The selected physical drive
will be enclosed with a red frame. The physical drives enclosed with blue frames are
already the members of the logical drive.
IMPORTANT:
Hard disk drives already used by logical drives
Hard disk drives already partitioned
Available for any logical drive.
Available only for the specified logical drive. (The name of a
logical drive already existing appears.)
Set unconfigured disks as spare disks previously.
Set the capacity of the dedicated spare disk to be the
same as that of the relevant logical drive.
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