Compaq ProLiant CL380 Software User Guide

CR3500 Configuration Utility 4-29

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Managing Spare Physical Drives

Making a spare physical drive part of a logical drive will protect the integrity

of the RAID setup. This proves especially true for logical drives that have

RAID requirements of two or more physical drives. Should one physical drive

fail, the logical drive will automatically activate the spare physical drive as

replacement for the failed drive.

Managing Failed Physical Drives

To return a failed physical drive to a non-failed state, from the Storage menu,

select Physical Drive, and then select Clear Failure.

You can easily identify a failed physical drive from the main screen because

the failed icon will appear. See Table 4-5 for the physical drive icons.

Deleting Logical Drives

CAUTION: If you delete a logical drive, all of the data on that logical drive will

be lost. The logical drives in the storage subsystem are logical units that contain

user data. Although logical drives do not exist in a physical sense, it is their

logical structure that ties together the physical pieces of data spread across

their members. Use extreme caution when deleting a logical drive.

1. Click the logical drives that you want to delete.

2. From the Storage pull-down menu, select Logical Drive, then select

Delete. A system message appears, asking if you want to delete all disks

in the group.

3. Click Yes to delete all the disks in the group.

Using Configuration Files

You can use a configuration file to save the configuration settings of the

CR3500 RAID Controllers and disk drives and to view or reconstruct the

settings at a later time. You also can revert to one of these saved

configurations at any time. The CR3500 Configuration Utility reads the

configuration file you choose and sets up your subsystem accordingly.