Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks 115• Right-click the physical disk and select Hot Spare Coverage from thepop-up menu.The Hot Spare Physical Disk Options window is displayed.4 Select the appropriate option, you can select:• View/change current hot spare coverage—to review hot spare coverageand to assign or unassign hot spare physical disks, if necessary. Seestep 5.• Automatically assign physical disks— to create hot spare physical disksautomatically for the best hot spare coverage using available physicaldisks.• Manually assign individual physical disks—to create hot spare physicaldisks out of the selected physical disks on the Physical tab.• Manually unassign individual physical disks—to unassign the selectedhot spare physical disks on the Physical tab. See step 12.5 To assign hot spares, in the Hot Spare Coverage window, select a diskgroup in the Hot spare coverage area.6 Review the information about the hot spare coverage in the Details area.7 Click Assign.The Assign Hot Spare window is displayed.8 Select the relevant physical disks in the Unassigned physical disks area, ashot spares for the selected disk and click OK.9 To unassign hot spares, in the Hot Spare Coverage window, select thephysical disks in the Hot spare physical disks area.10 Review the information about the hot spare coverage in the Details area.11 Click Unassign.A message prompts you to confirm the operation.12 Type yes and click OK.Hot Spares and RebuildA valuable strategy to protect data is to assign available physical disks in thestorage array as hot spares. A hot spare adds another level of fault tolerance tothe storage array.
