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MegaRAID Storage Manager Online Help System |
Creating Global Hot Spares
Global hot spares are drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a mirrored drive group (RAID 1 or RAID 1E). If you create two mirrored drive groups on the controller, the hot spares will automatically replace failed drives in both drive groups. You can create one or two hot spares per controller.
To create a global hot spare, follow these steps:
- Select the Physical View tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window.
- Click the icon of an unused drive that is not already part of an drive group/virtual drive.
- Select the Operations tab in the right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window
The list of actions you can perform for the selected drive appears in the right panel.- Select Make Global Hotspare on the menu.
- Click Go to create the global hot spare.
The drive icon changes to a hot spare icon.
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