Assigning Dedicated Spare Drives

Dedicated spare drives provide protection to one or more specified arrays on the controller. If you select an Unconfigured Good drive, you have the option of assigning it as a dedicated spare drive. Perform these steps to assign a dedicated spare drive.

1.	Navigate to the Controller dashboard and click the Drives tab.

All of the associated drives appear.

2.	Expand Unconfigured Drives and select an unconfigured good drive.

3.	Select Actions > More Actions > Assign Dedicated Spare Drive.

The Arrays dialog appears.

4.	Select an array and click Add Dedicated Spare Drive.

A confirmation message appears.

5.	Click Done.

The unconfigured good drive is changed to a dedicated spare drive. The status of the unconfigured good drive appears as a dedicated spare drive in the Spare Drives section.