Areca ARC-1222 - 3.3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets; 3.4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares

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3.4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares
Any unused disk drive that is not part of a RAID set can be desig-
nated as a hot spare. The “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” conguration
will add the spare disk drive and automatically display the appro-
priate RAID level from which the user can select. For the “Raid Set
Function” conguration option, the user can use the “Create Hot
Spare” option to dene the hot spare disk drive.
When a hot spare disk drive is being created using the “Create Hot
Spare” option (in the Raid Set Function), all unused physical de-
vices connected to the current controller appear:
Choose the target disk by selecting the appropriate check box.
Press Enter key to select a disk drive, and press Yes in the “Cre-
ate Hot Spare” to designate it as a hot spare.
• Dene volume sets,
• Modify volume sets,
• Modify RAID level/stripe size,
• Dene pass-through disk drives,
• Modify system functions and
• Designate drives as hot spares.
3.3 Conguring Raid Sets and Volume Sets
You can congure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID
manager automatically. Using “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” or manu-
ally using “Raid Set/Volume Set Function”. Each conguration
method requires a different level of user input. The general ow of
operations for RAID set and volume set conguration is:
Step Action
1 Designate hot spares/pass-through drives (optional).
2 Choose a conguration method.
3 Create RAID sets using the available physical drives.
4 Dene volume sets using the space available in the RAID set.
5 Initialize the volume sets and use volume sets (as logical drives) in the
host OS.