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Creating Hot Spare Drives
Hot spares are drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a mirrored drive group (RAID 1 or RAID 1E). Global hot spares are available to any virtual drive on a specific controller. If you create two mirrored drive groups on the controller, the hot spares automatically replace failed drives in both drive groups. You can create one or two hot spares per controller.
To create a global hot spare drive, follow these steps:
- Select the Physical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen, and click the icon of an available online drive.
For each drive, the screen displays the port number, enclosure number, slot number, drive state, drive capacity, and drive manufacturer.- Select Go To->Physical Drive->Assign Global Hot Spare.
- Click Go to create the hot spare.
The drive state for the drive changes to global hot spare.
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