MSI X2-109 v1 - Manual (Page 103)

Adding Hotspare Disks 7-13
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9. (Optional) Change the other Virtual Disk Properties, if necessary. For
more information, see
Section 7.1.1, “Understanding Virtual Disk
Parameters.”
10. Click Accept to accept the configuration of the new virtual disk.
Note: Click the Reclaim button if you want to undo a virtual disk
that you just defined.
11. Click Next to continue with the next configuration step.
The Virtual Disk Summary window appears.
12. Review the configuration shown in the window. If you want to change
something, click Back and change the configuration parameters.
13. Click Finish to accept the configuration and start the initialization
process (unless you selected No Initialization earlier).
7.2 Adding Hotspare Disks
Hotspares are disk drives that are available to automatically replace
failed drives in a RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10 virtual disk. Only global
hotspares are supported for Embedded MegaRAID Software.
To add a global hotspare disk, follow these steps:
1. In the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, right-
click the icon of any unused disk drive.
2. Select Make Global Hotspare.
Make sure the capacity of the hotspare drive is equal to or larger
than the capacity of the disks in the array and that it is the same type
of drive (SAS or SATA).
Note: The hotspare drive will rebuild a failed drive even if it is
SAS and the array drives are SATA, or vice versa. Once
the rebuilt is completed, LSI recommends that you replace
the new array member with a drive of the same type.