Replacing an online physical disk – Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H800 User Manual

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Configuring and Managing RAID

4 Press the down-arrow key to select Remove Hot Spare from the list of

actions and press <Enter>.
The physical disk is changed to the

Ready state. The status of the physical

disk is displayed under the heading

State.

NOTE:

Try to use physical disks of the same capacity in a specific virtual disk.

If you use physical disks with different capacities in a virtual disk, all physical

disks in the virtual disk are treated as if they have the capacity of the

smallest physical disk.

5 Select additional hot spares if desired and follow step 1 to step 4 to

remove them.

Replacing an Online Physical Disk

In addition to the automatic Replace Member operation, you can manually

replace any physical disk that is part of a virtual disk using the Replace

Member functionality. Perform the following steps to replace a physical disk:

1 In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and

press the down-arrow key until

Physical Disks is highlighted.

2 Press the right-arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that are

members of the virtual disk.

3 Press the down-arrow key and highlight the desired physical disk you

want to replace. Press <F2> to expand the list of allowed operations

on the disk.

4 Select Replace and then Start.
5 Press the down-arrow to highlight a replacement disk and then press the

spacebar to select the disk.

6 Select OK to start the replacement.

NOTE:

The replacement disk must be a hot spare or an unconfigured disk without

a foreign configuration. It must have the same or greater capacity and should be of

the same type as the disk it is replacing.

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