Assigning spare drives

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.

1. Do one of the following to display the Assign Spare Drives window.

For Command Suite:

• On the Resource tab, expand the Storage Systems tree. Right-click Parity Groups on the target storage system. Click Operation>Assign Spare Drives.

For Storage Navigator:

1. Display the Drives tab.

To display the Drives tab, perform one of the following:

(1) To display all drives in the storage system, in the storage system tree, select Parity Groups and then select the Drives tab.

(2) To display drives related to Internal, in the storage system tree, select Parity Groups > Internal and then select the Drives tab.

(3) To display drives related to each parity group, in the storage system tree, select Parity Groups, then select the parity group ID, then the Drives tab.

2. Select the row of the drive box that assigns the spare drive.

The drive box row displaying Free on the Usage column can be selected.

If the Usage column is not displayed on the Drives tab or you do not select drive boxes, go to the next step.

3. To display the Assign Spare Drives window, perform one of the following:

(1) Click Assign Spare Drives.

(2) Click Actions > Parity Group > Assign Spare Drives to open the window.

2. In the Available Drives table, select the drive box and click Add.

The selected drive box is registered in the Selected Spare Drives table.

3. Click Finish.

The Confirm window opens.

4. In the Confirm window, confirm the settings, in Task Name type a unique name for this task or accept the default, then click Apply.

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