Creating spanned arrays and hot-spare
drives with physical drives
You can create spanned arrays to
improve security, performance, and reliability.
- Create spanned arrays by dragging
physical drives from the left tree to an icon in the right tree that is labeled
either:
- Add new array
- New array followed by
a letter (such as, New array B).
Notes:
- You also can drag an entire
channel
,
if you want to move all the ready drives in that channel.
- If you want to remove a physical
drive
from a new array, drag it back to the left tree.
- Create hot-spare drives by dragging
physical drives from the left tree to the icon labeled hot-spare drives
in the right tree. The icon in the left tree will change to the hot-spare
icon
and the drive will appear in the hot-spare drives branch in the right
tree as a New Hot spare.
Tip: If you want to change
a New Hot spare back into a ready drive, drag it back to the left tree.
- After you define all your spanned
arrays and hot-spare drives, click Next to custom
configure your logical drives. You might want to verify that there are
no remaining ready drives first.
Click Back to return to the
selection window for Express and Custom configuration
modes.
Click Cancel to leave Configuration
mode and return to the System Management Information
window.
See also
Understanding
creating spanned arrays