Grass Valley PVS Series System Guide v.4.0 Dec 10 200 - Manual (Page 75)

Configuring storage to include hot spare drives
July 27, 2001 Profile XP System Guide 75
Configuring storage to include hot spare drives
Before using your Profile XP system, you must use the Disk Utility to configure the
PFC500 storage system. Configuring the storage system involves:
• Binding any unbound LUNs
• Creating and naming a video file system
When you configure storage, you can also designate drives as hot spare drives. Hot
spare drives are used in the event of a drive failure in a data LUN. If a drive failure
occurs, the RAID Controller automatically selects a hot spare drive to use in place of
the failed drive. When the failed disk module is replaced, the RAID controller copies
the hot spare drive data to the replacement drive, then returns the hot spare drive back
to hot spare status.
If the drives you want to designate as hot spares are bound as part of a data LUN, you
must unbind the drives first, then bind them as hot spares. A hot spare LUN can
contain 1 to 5 drives. Hot spares drives are available only to RAID Controller to which
they are connected.
Perform the following procedure if you are configuring PFC 500 storage systems to
include hot spare drives.