Use the options on the Hot Spare dialog to assign or unassign . A hot spare disk physical disk does not contain data. A hot spare disk physical disk acts as a standby in case any disk physical disk fails in a , , , or on the . The hot spare disk physical disk adds another level of to the storage array.
Important:
You can use only with an status as hot spare physical disks.
You can unassign only hot spare disk physical disks with an Optimal, Standby status. You cannot unassign a hot spare disk physical disk taking over for a failed disk physical disk.
If a hot spare disk physical disk is not in an Optimal state, follow the Recovery Guru procedures for correcting any problem before trying to unassign the disk physical disk.
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Select Physical Disk >> Hot Spare Coverage.
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Select the radio button next to the correct option, as shown in the table.
Option
Description
View/change current hot spare coverage
Select this option to open the Hot Spare Physical Disk Coverage dialog. This option is always available.
Automatically assign disk physical disks
Select this option to create hot spare disk physical disks automatically for the best hot spare coverage using available disk physical disks. This option is always available.
Manually assign individual disk physical disks
Select this option to create hot spare disk physical disks out of the selected disk physical disks. This option is available only if disk physical disks have been selected in the Physical View.
Manually unassign individual disk physical disks
Select this option to unassign the selected hot spare disk physical disks. The option is available only if disk physical disks have been selected in the Physical View.
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Click OK.
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To unassign a hot spare disk physical disk, type yes in the text box and click OK.