User`s guide

Chapter 5: Protecting Your Data ● 57
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare
You can delete a dedicated hot spare or remove it from a logical drive. You may want to do this to:
● Make disk drive space available for another logical drive.
● Make a dedicated hot spare into a global hot spare.
● Remove the ‘hot spare’ designation from a disk drive that is no longer being used as a hot
spare. (When a hot spare is built into a logical drive after a disk drive failure, it retains its
‘hot spare’ designation even though it can no longer protect the logical drives it’s assigned
to. See Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure on page 138 for more information.)
To remove or delete a dedicated hot spare:
1 In the Enterprise View, click the controller associated with the hot spare.
2 In the Physical Devices View, click the hot spare.
3 In the menu bar, select Actions, then click Delete dedicated hot-spare drive, or click
Remove dedicated hot-spare drive from, then select the logical drive you want (in this
example, Device 1).
The hot spare is deleted or removed, and the disk drive becomes available for other uses in
your storage space.
Deleting a Global Hot Spare
You can delete a global hot spare. You may want to do this to:
● Make disk drive space available for another logical drive.
● Make a global hot spare into a dedicated hot spare.
● Remove the ‘hot spare’ designation from a disk drive that is no longer being used as a hot
spare. (When a hot spare is built into a logical drive after a disk drive failure, it retains its
‘hot spare’ designation even though it can no longer protect the logical drives it’s assigned
to. See Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure on page 138 for more information.)
To remove or delete a dedicated hot spare:
1 In the Enterprise View, click the controller associated with the hot spare.
2 In the Physical Devices View, click the hot spare.