Binding Hot Spare drives

  • You must access Storage Utility (via the K2 System Configuration application login) with permissions equivalent to K2 administrator or higher.
  • When you access Storage Utility, the K2 SAN must be offline.
  • All iSCSI or LAN Connect clients and K2 clients in the K2 SAN must be shut down.

You can bind disks as hot spare drives. Hot spare drives are on standby and are used in the event of a drive failure in a RANK. If a drive fails, the RAID Controller automatically selects a hot spare drive to use in place of the failed drive. This prevents the system from operating in a degraded state.

If the drives you want to designate as hot spares are bound as part of a RANK, you must unbind the drives first, then bind them as hot spares. To function as a Hot Spare, the drive must be at least as fast and have at least as much capacity as the failed drive it replaces.

  1. In Storage Utility, right-click the Unbound node for a controller, then select Bind in the context menu. (Peer controllers that share the same set of disks are automatically selected as a pair.) The Binding dialog box opens showing all unbound disks for the controller listed in the Available Disk list.
  2. Select Hot Spare using the BIND TYPE drop-down box.
  3. In the Available Disks box, select the disk(s) to be used as hot spares, then click the add (arrow) button to add them to the Selected Disks list.
    Note: As an aid in identifying a disk module’s physical location, select it in the Selected Disks list, then click Identify Disks. This causes the disk drive LED to flash.
  4. Click OK to close the Binding… dialog box and begin the binding process. The Progress Report dialog box opens, showing the status of the binding process.
  5. Upon 100% completion, click Close in Progress Report window.
  6. Restart the K2 Media Server.

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