Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 6i - Manual (Page 106)

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Configuring and Managing RAID
4 Press the down arrow key to select Remove Hot Spare from the list of
actions and press .
The physical disk is changed to the Ready state. The status of the physical
disk is displayed under the heading State.
NOTE:
Try to use physical disks of the same capacity in a specific virtual disk.
If you use physical disks with different capacities in a virtual disk, all physical
disks in the virtual disk are treated as if they have the capacity of the smallest
physical disk.
5 Select additional hot spares if desired and follow step 1 to step 4 to remove
them.
Replacing an Online Physical Disk
In addition to the automatic Replace Member operation, you can manually
replace any physical disk that is part of a virtual disk using the Replace
Member functionality. Perform the following steps to replace a physical disk:
1 In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and press
the down arrow key until Physical Disks is highlighted.
2 Press the right arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that are
members of the virtual disk.
3 Press the down arrow key until the desired physical disk you want to
replace is highlighted. Press to expand the list of allowed operations
on this disk.
4 Select Replace and then Start.
5 Press the down arrow to highlight a replacement disk and then press the
spacebar to select the disk.
6 Select OK to start the replacement.
NOTE:
The replacement disk must be a hot spare or an unconfigured disk without a
foreign configuration. It must have the same or greater capacity and should be of
the same type (SAS/SATA) as the disk it is replacing.
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