Creating a Hot Spare

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.