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Galaxy G3G12 / G3G16 Installation and Hardware Reference Manual
141 Section 4 Maintenance with GAM
4.25 Managing Spare Drives
When a physical drive in a disk array fails and a spare drive of adequate capacity is available, the disk array
will begin to rebuild automatically using the spare drive. See “Critical & Offline Disk Arrays” in chapter 7.
Spare drive management includes the following functions:
• Viewing a List of Spare Drives
• Locating a Spare Drive
• Creating a Spare Drive
• Deleting Spare Drive
• Making Spare Drive Settings
• Running Spare Check
Viewing a List of Spare Drives
To view a list of spare drives:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Spare Drives
icon.
The information includes:
• ID – The unique ID number assigned to the spare drive.
• Operational Status – OK is normal. Can also show Rebuilding, Transition Running, PDM Running, or
Offline.
• Physical Drive ID – The ID number of the physical drive in the subsystem enclosure.
• Capacity – The data storage capacity of this spare drive.
• Revertible – Yes or No. A revertible spare drive automatically returns to its spare drive assignment after
the failed physical drive in the disk array is replaced.
• Type –Global, can be used by any disk array. Dedicated, can only be used by the assigned disk array.
• Dedicated to Array – For dedicated spares, the disk array to which it is assigned. Global spares show
N/A.
Locating a Spare Drive
To locate a physical drive assigned as a spare drive in the Galaxy3G subsystem enclosure:
1. Click the Subsystem
icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Spare Drives
icon.
3. Click the Spare Drive
icon.
In Management View, the Enclosure Front View diagram appears with the location of the spare drive
highlighted.
Creating a Spare Drive
Important
• There must be an unconfigured physical drive available for
selection as a spare drive. See
Viewing a List of Physical
Drives
• Identifying a Physical Drive
• Making Global Physical Drive Settings
• Viewing Physical Drive Information