Releasing spare drives

You can release spare drives so they can be used as data drives.

Before you begin

Procedure

1. Open the Assign Spare Drives window.

   In Command Suite:

   1. On the Resources tab, click Storage Systems, and then expand All Storage Systems and the target storage system.

   2. Right click Parity Groups, and then select Assign Spare Drives.

   In Device Manager - Storage Navigator:

   1. Click Storage Systems, and then expand the Storage Systems tree.

   2. Click Parity Groups.

   3. Select the Drive tab.

      If desired, select one or more drive boxes that have the value Free in the Usage column.

   4. Click Assign Spare Drives.

2. In the Selected Spare Drives table, select one or more drive boxes, and then click Remove.

   The selected drive boxes are moved to the Available Drives table.

3. Click Finish.

   The Confirm window opens.

4. In the Confirm window verify the settings.

5. In the Task Name field enter a unique name or accept the default, and then click Apply.

   If Go to tasks window for status is checked the Tasks window opens.

Parent Topic

• Spare drives and copy-back mode

  Spare drives are mounted separately from the data drives for usual write and read operation. If a failure occurs in a data drive, data is copied to a spare drive so that the storage system can continue to be available.