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Intel® RAID Software User Guide 184
9.14 Creating Hot Spares
Hot spares are disk drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a
virtual disk. There are two kinds of hot spares: 1) dedicated hot spares, which are
available to one or more specified arrays or disk groups, and 2) global hot spares, which
are available to any array or disk group defined on the controller.
To create a global hot spare, follow these steps:
1. In the left panel of the Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2 window, right-click the icon of
disk drive that is not assigned to a storage configuration. If it is assigned to a
storage configuration, a check mark is displayed on the disk drive icon.
2. In the Menu, click the Go
To -> Physical Drive tab and select Assign Global
Hotspare, as shown in Figure 110.
Figure 110. Assign Global Hotspare