Avago Technologies 3ware SAS 9750-16i4e - Manual (Page 109)

Creating a Hot Spare
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To partition, format, and mount under OpenSolaris
After you create a RAID unit through 3BM or the 3ware CLI, you will need to
format and partition the unit, create a file system, and mount it.
These types of system administration tasks are found in the OpenSolaris
documentation.
• OpenSolaris System Administrator Collection:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/47.24
• OpenSolaris System Administration Guide:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2723
-Chapter 10 Managing Disks (Overview)
• Solaris ZFS Administration Guide:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271
• OpenSolaris Reference Manual Collection:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/40.18
• See man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands
format (1M)
fdisk (1M)
newfs (1M)
zpool (1M)
• If you have the documentation installed also try
“# man -s 1M format”
“# man -s 1M fdisk”
“# man -s 1M newfs”
“# man -s 1M zpool”
Creating a Hot Spare
You can designate an available drive as a hot spare. If a redundant unit
degrades and a hot spare the size of the degraded disk (or larger) is available,
the hot spare will automatically replace the failed drive in the unit without
user intervention.
It is a good idea to create a hot spare after you create a redundant unit.
Note: When a hot spare replaces a failed drive, an event notification is generated
and appears in the list of alarms in 3DM2. You can also have 3DM2 send you an
email about this. See “Managing E-mail Event Notification” on page 59.