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Chapter 5: Management with WebPAM PRO

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Managing Spare Drives

When a physical drive in a disk array fails and a spare drive of adequate capacity

is available, the disk array will begin to rebuild automatically using the spare

drive. See “Critical & Offline Logical Drives” on page 180.

Spare drive management includes the following functions:

• Viewing a List of Spare Drives (page 137)

• Creating a Spare Drive (page 137)

• Deleting Spare Drive (page 138)

• Making Spare Drive Settings (page 139)

Viewing a List of Spare Drives

To view a list of spare drives:

1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2. Click the Spare Drives icon.

The information includes:

• ID – The unique ID number assigned to the spare drive.

• Operational Status – OK is normal. Can also show Rebuilding or Offline.

• Physical Drive ID – The ID number of the physical drive assigned as a

spare

• Capacity – The data storage capacity of this spare drive.

• Type – Global, can be used by any disk array. Dedicated, can only be used

by the assigned disk arrays.

• Dedicated to Disk Arrays – For dedicated spares, the disk arrays to which

they are assigned. Global spares show N/A.

Creating a Spare Drive

To create a spare drive:

1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

Important

• There must be an unconfigured physical drive available to

assign as a spare drive. See “Viewing a List of Physical

Drives” on page 117.

• Be sure the spare drive you choose has capacity equal to or

greater than the smallest physical drive assigned to the disk

array.

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