Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 9 User’s Guide H330, H730, and H830

Creating global hot spares

You can use a global hot spare to replace a failed physical disk in any redundant array as long as the capacity of the global hot spare is equal to or larger than the coerced capacity of the failed physical disk.

1. Press the down-arrow key to highlight a physical disk to change to a global hot spare.
2. Press <F2> to display the menu of available actions.
3. Press the down-arrow key to highlight Make Global HS and press <Enter>.
   The physical disk is changed to a global hot spare. The status of the physical disk as a global hot spare is displayed under the heading State.

   NOTE:To replace a failed physical disk global hot spares must use the same disk technology and must be equal or greater in size.

   NOTE:To change additional physical disks to global hot spares, follow step 1 to step 4.