Set a Global Spare Drive

You must use an unconfigured physical disk. A fully or even partially configured physical disk cannot be set as a spare physical disk. Spare physical disks are needed for Auto-Rebuild functions.

To set a spare drive

  1. Start the MRU

  2. Click the Physical Disks link from the left navigation panel.

  3. Select an unconfigured Physical Disk Unconfigured physical disk.

  4. Click the Operation tab and select Set as Global Spare Drive, as shown in the figure below.

  5. Set Spare

To unset a spare drive

  1. Start the MRU.

  2. Click the Physical Disks link from the left navigation panel.

  3. Select the Spare Drive.

  4. Click the Operation tab and select Unset as Global Spare Drive.