Assigning Physical Disk as Global Spare Drive

You can assign spare drives that can be used for Rebuilding Degraded Array. Global spare drives can be used by any array. Only an unconfigured physical disk can be assigned as a spare drive. A physical disk which is either fully or partially configured cannot be used as a spare drive.

To assign physical disk as global spare drive

1.    Select Physical Disk.

2.    Roll-over the Operation tab, and select Set as Global Spare Drive, as shown in Figure 1.

MSU confirms the assignment as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1  Assigning Physical Disk as Global Spare Drive

 

Figure 2  Spare Confirmation

 

To release a physical disk from spare drive status

1.    Select an unconfigured Global Spare Drive.

2.    Roll-over the Operation tab, and select Unset as Global Spare Drive.

MSU confirms the change by updating the Status of the physical disk in the Property tab.