Dell PERC13 and PERC12 User’s Guide PERC H975 Series and PERC H965 Series cards

Assign a dedicated hot spare

1. Navigate to the PERC Configuration Utility.
2. Click Main Menu > Device Management > Logical Enclosure <enclosure Number>. An enclosure number can be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on.
   All the hard drives that are associated with the selected enclosure are listed.
3. Select the hard drive.
4. From the Operations drop-down menu, select Assign Dedicated Hot Spare.
5. Click Go.
6. When prompted to indicate if you want to assign the selected PDs as dedicated hot spare devices, select the Confirm check box, and then click Yes.
   NOTE:When all drives associated with a VD (including the dedicated hot spare that is assigned to that VD) are removed from the server and reinserted, the dedicated hot spare will be converted to a global hot spare if there are other VDs available in the server. If there are no VDs left in the server, then the dedicated hot spare will be marked as foreign drives.