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

Replacing an online physical disk

In addition to the automatic Replace Member operation, you can manually replace any physical disk that is part of a virtual disk using the Replace Member functionality.

1. In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and press the down-arrow key until Physical Disks is highlighted.
2. Press the right-arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that are members of the virtual disk.
3. Press the down-arrow key and highlight the desired physical disk you want to replace. Press <F2> to expand the list of allowed operations on the disk.
4. Select Replace.
5. Select Start.
6. Press the down-arrow to highlight a replacement disk and then press the spacebar to select the disk.
7. Select OK to start the replacement.
   NOTE:The replacement disk must be a hot spare or an unconfigured disk without a foreign configuration. It must have the same or greater capacity and should be of the same type as the disk it is replacing.