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VTrak 15110 User Manual
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The Dedicated hot spare drive option requires you to designate an unassigned
disk drive as the hot spare for a specific disk array. This action is described under
Create, below.
Spare Drive List
To see a list of the current dedicated hot spare drives:
1. Click on the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click on the VTrak icon.
3. Click on the Spare Drives icon.
A list of spare drives displays the following information.
•
# – This is the individual number of a spare drive.
• Physical Drive ID – This is the slot number of a physical drive that has
been designated as a spare drive.
• Capacity – This is the available data storage capacity of this physical
drive.
• Spare Type – All spare drives under this function are Dedicated spares.
• Dedicated Disk Arrays – The specific disk array to which this spare
drive is dedicated.
Create a Spare Drive
Make these two checks before proceding:
• Click on the Settings tab under the Disk Array icon and verify that Auto
Rebuild is enabled (checked).
• Click on the Physical Drives icon under the Disk Array icon and verify
the size of the physical drives in the disk array. You will need this information
to select a physical drive of adequate capacity.
To create a new dedicated hot spare drive:
1. Click on the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click on the VTrak icon.
3. Click on the Spare Drives icon.
4. Click on the Create tab.