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Chapter 4: Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced
The RAID PROPERTIES screen appears when the expansion process is complete.
This typically occurs in a very short amount of time.
11. Run a commercial tool specific to the operating system to move or increase the size
of the partition on the newly-expanded RAID1 volume.
4-6 Hot Spare Disks
You can create one or two global hot spare disks to protect the data on mirrored
volumes on a SAS2 controller. You can also delete hot spare disks.
Creating Hot Spare Disks
Follow these steps to add global hot spare disks to an existing volume. The steps begin
with the A
DAPTER LIST window that appears when the configuration utility starts:
1. In the ADAPTER LIST window, use the arrow keys to select the SAS adapter with the
volume that needs hot spare disks and then press E
NTER.
The ADAPTER PROPERTIES window appears.
2. Use the arrow keys to select RAID PROPERTIES, and then press ENTER.
The SELECT NEW ARRAY TYPE window appears.
3. Select VIEW EXISTING ARRAY.
The VIEW ARRAY window appears. If necessary, press Alt + N to switch to another
array on this adapter.
4. Select M
ANAGE ARRAY.
The MANAGE ARRAY window appears.
5. Select MANAGE HOT SPARES, which is the first option.
The MANAGE HOT SPARES window appears.
6. Identify a disk that is not part of a RAID volume (such as the value in the DRIVE
S
TATUS column is not RAID) and that is not already identified as a hot spare disk.
7. Move the highlight to the H
OT SPR (HOT SPARE) field for this disk and press the
space bar.
The Hot Spare status changes to Yes.
8. (Optional) Repeat the preceding step to select a second global hot spare disk
9. Press C to create the hot spare disk.
A menu window appears. An error message appears if the selected disk is not at
least as large as the smallest disk used in the existing volume(s). An error message
NOTE: A global hot spare disk must have 512-byte blocks and nonremovable
media. The disk type must be either SATA with extended command set support
or SAS with SMART support.