Server Administrator Storage Management 8.3 User’s Guide

Considerations For Hot Spares On PERC S100 And PERC S300 Controllers

For the PERC S100 and PERC S300 controllers, a hot spare is assigned to a virtual disk. When a physical disk fails, only the portion of the physical disk containing the virtual disk is rebuilt onto the hot spare. Data or space on the physical disk is not included in the virtual disk are not rebuilt.

On the PERC S100 and PERC S300 controllers, individual physical disks may be included in more than one virtual disk. Assigning a portion of a physical disk to a virtual disk does not preclude the remaining portion of the physical disk from being used by other virtual disks. Only the virtual disks to which the hot spare is assigned are rebuilt. When using Storage Management, a disk that is assigned as a hot spare on a PERC S100 and PERC S300 controller cannot be used as a member of a virtual disk.