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A dedicated hot spare is an unused backup disk that is assigned to a single virtual disk. When a physical disk in the virtual disk fails, the hot spare is activated to replace the failed physical disk without interrupting the system or requiring your intervention.
For more information on hot spares including size requirements, see "Protecting Your Virtual Disk with a Hot Spare". For considerations regarding RAID 10 and RAID 50 virtual disks created using the controller BIOS, see "Dedicated Hot Spare Considerations".
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NOTE: The CERC SATA1.5/2s controller does not support dedicated hot spares.
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- Select the disk in the Connector (channel or port) table that you want to use as the dedicated hot spare. On some controllers, more than one disk can be selected. The disks you have selected as dedicated hot spares are displayed in the Disks currently configured as dedicated hot spare table.
- Click Apply Changes when ready.
- Click the disk in the Disks currently configured as dedicated hot spare table to unassign it. Clicking the disk removes the disk from the Disks currently configured as dedicated hot spare table and returns it to the Connector (channel or port) table.
- Click Apply Changes when ready.
- Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
- Expand a controller object.
- Select the Virtual Disks object.
- Select Assign Dedicated Hot Spare or Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.
- Click Execute.
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