Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head - Manual (Page 608)

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The spare drive must:
• Have adequate capacity to replace the largest physical drive in your disk arrays.
• Be the same media type as the physical drives in your disk arrays.
• A revertible spare drive requires:
• You to replace the failed physical drive in the disk array
• You to run the Transition function
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Transition is the process of replacing a revertible spare drive that is currently part of a disk array with an
unconfigured physical drive or a non-revertible spare. The revertible spare drive returns to its original status. In
order to run the Transition function, the spare drive must be revertible.
In addition, you must specify an unconfigured physical drive of the same or larger capacity and same media
type as the revertible spare drive.
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The Transition feature enables you to specify “permanent” spare drives for your Vess subsystem. Transition is
the process of replacing a revertible spare drive that is currently part of a disk array with an unconfigured physical
drive or a non-revertible spare. The revertible spare drive returns to its original status.
Transition happens automatically when the following sequence of events takes place:
• You create a revertible spare drive. See “Creating a Spare Drive Manually” on page 214.
• A physical drive assigned to your disk array fails and the array goes critical or degraded.
• Vess automatically rebuilds your array to the revertible spare drive and the array becomes functional
again.
• You replace the failed physical drive with a new physical drive of equal or greater capacity.
• Vess automatically transitions (moves) the data from the revertible spare to the new physical drive.
The new physical drive becomes part of the array and the revertible spare drive returns to its original spare
status.