Before creating a hot spare, review
the information in What is a Hot Spare?
To create a hot spare:
1. Click in the Physical Devices view.
2. Select the drive (or drives) you want to
reserve as a hot spare.
Note: You cannot select a drive that is
already used in an array.
Caution: If this feature is not supported by your
controller, the following message is displayed:
"Failed to implement hot spare changes. Function not supported by the
target board."
3. Optional. To dedicate the hot spare to a
single array, click Advanced and then select a logical drive (array). If
you do not select an array, the hot spare is a global
hot spare, that protects all the arrays on the controller that the spare is
large enough to protect.
4. Click Finish.