Configuring and Managing RAID 1074 Press the down-arrow key to select Remove Hot Spare from the list ofactions and press .The physical disk is changed to the Ready state. The status of the physicaldisk 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 physicaldisks in the virtual disk are treated as if they have the capacity of the smallestphysical disk.5 Select additional hot spares if desired and follow step 1 to step 4 toremove them.Replacing an Online Physical DiskIn addition to the automatic Replace Member operation, you can manuallyreplace any physical disk that is part of a virtual disk using the ReplaceMember functionality. Perform the following steps to replace a physical disk:1 In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and pressthe down-arrow key until Physical Disks is highlighted.2 Press the right-arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that aremembers of the virtual disk.3 Press the down-arrow key and highlight the desired physical disk you wantto replace. Press to expand the list of allowed operations on thisdisk.4 Select Replace and then Start.5 Press the down-arrow to highlight a replacement disk and then press thespacebar 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 aforeign configuration. It must have the same or greater capacity and should be ofthe same type as the disk it is replacing.
