Assigning Global Spare Drives

A global spare drive replaces a failed drive in any redundant array, as long as the capacity of the global spare drives is equal to or larger than the coerced capacity of the failed drive. Perform the following steps to assign global spare drives.

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 Global Spare Drive.

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