Dedicated hot spares, Global hot spares – Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller S110 User Manual
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Every time a physical disk is connected or disconnected while online, a rescan
is performed. A rescan is automatically performed when Dell OpenManage
Server Administrator Storage Management detects that a physical disk has
been added or removed.
Dedicated Hot Spares
A dedicated hot spare is a backup physical disk for the redundant virtual disk
to which it is assigned. The physical disk that is used as a dedicated hot spare
cannot be a member of an existing virtual disk. When the hot spare is
activated, it becomes the receptacle for the data from the failed physical disk
member of the volume, without interrupting the system or requiring your
intervention.
A dedicated hot spare can be assigned to any redundant virtual disk, and up to
four hot spares can be assigned to a virtual disk. However, a dedicated hot
spare cannot be assigned while a task is running on the virtual disk.
A global hot spare can be assigned when a virtual disk is created in the PERC
BIOS Configuration Utility. A global hot spare can be added at any time when
Storage Management is used.
If there is enough space available on the dedicated hot spare, and a disk
failure occurs, the rebuild process for the virtual disk starts automatically.
Dedicated hot spare assignments do not apply to a non-redundant virtual
disk.
NOTE:
A virtual disk is marked Failed or Degraded if a physical disk reports a Failed
state, or if the SAS/SATA cable to the physical disk or power cable is disconnected.
A dedicated hot spare is often preferred to a global hot spare, especially for
critical data. This is because a dedicated hot spare guarantees that the virtual
disk has a backup physical disk assigned exclusively to it in case of a failure.
For additional information, see
"Managing Hot Spares" on page 32
.
Global Hot Spares
A global hot spare is a backup physical disk that can be used by any redundant
virtual disk. It is not assigned (dedicated) to any specific virtual disk.
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