Avago Technologies SAS 9300-4i Host Bus Adapter - Manual (Page 18)

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SAS-3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide
November 2012 Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes
Managing Hot Spare Disks
3.3 Managing Hot Spare Disks
You can create one or two global hot spare disks to protect the data on mirrored volumes on an LSI SAS-3 controller.
You can also delete hot spare disks.
3.3.1 Creating Hot Spare Disks
Follow these steps to add global hot spare disks to an existing volume. The steps begin with the Adapter List window
that appears when the configuration utility starts.
1. In the Adapter List window, use the arrow keys to select the LSI SAS-3 adapter on which you want to create hot
spare disks, and then press Enter.
The Adapter Properties window appears.
2. Use the arrow keys to select RAID Properties, and then press Enter.
The Select New Array Type window appears.
3. Select View Existing Array.
The View Array window appears. If necessary, press Alt + N to switch to another array on this adapter.
4. Select Manage Volume.
The Manage Volume window appears, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 6 Manage Volume Window
5. Select Manage Hot Spares.
The Manage Hot Spares window appears.
6. Identify a disk that is not part of a RAID array (that is, the value in the Drive Status column is not RAID) and that is
not already identified as a hot spare disk.
A global hot spare disk must have 512-byte blocks and nonremovable media. The disk type must be either SATA
with extended command set support or SAS with SMART support.