Promise Technology VTrak M610i User Manual

Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PROe
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Managing Spare Drives
When a physical drive in a disk array fails and a spare drive of adequate capacity
is available, the disk array will begin to rebuild automatically using the spare
drive. See “Critical & Offline Disk Arrays” on page 269.
Spare drive management includes the following functions:
• Viewing a List of Spare Drives (page 125)
• Locating a Spare Drive (page 125)
• Creating a Spare Drive (page 126)
• Deleting Spare Drive (page 127)
• Making Spare Drive Settings (page 127)
• Running Spare Check (page 128)
Viewing a List of Spare Drives
To view a list of spare drives:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Spare Drives icon.
The information includes:
• ID – The unique ID number assigned to the spare drive.
• Operational Status – OK is normal. Can also show Rebuilding, Transition
Running, PDM Running, or Offline.
• Physical Drive ID – The ID number of the physical drive in the subsystem
enclosure.
• Capacity – The data storage capacity of this spare drive.
• Revertible – Yes or No. A revertible spare drive automatically returns to its
spare drive assignment after the failed physical drive in the disk array is
replaced.
• Type – Global, can be used by any disk array. Dedicated, can only be used
by the assigned disk array.
• Dedicated to Array – For dedicated spares, the disk array to which it is
assigned. Global spares show N/A.
Locating a Spare Drive
To locate a physical drive assigned as a spare drive in the VTrak subsystem
enclosure:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Spare Drives icon.

Promise Technology VTrak M610i Specifications

General

Brand	Promise Technology
Model	VTrak M610i
Category	Network Storage Server
Language	English