How to Associate a Hot Spare Pool (DiskSuite Tool)

A hot spare pool must exist before it can be associated with a submirror or RAID5 metadevice.

1. Make sure you have met the prerequisites ("Prerequisites for Creating DiskSuite Objects") and have read the preliminary information ("Preliminary Information for Creating Hot Spare Pools").

2. Double-click the mirror or RAID5 metadevice in the Objects list.

   The object appears on the canvas.

3. Choose Hot Spare Pools from the Browse menu then choose a hot spare pool object from the list.

   The hot spare pool should have slices the same size or larger than the submirrors in the mirror, or the slices in the RAID5 metadevice. Ideally, the Hot Spare Pool contains hot spares that are on a different controller than the slices in the metadevice.

4. Drag the Hot Spare Pool object to the top of the metadevice object.

5. Click the top rectangle of the metadevice object then click Commit.

6. To verify that the hot spare pool was associated, display the Configuration Log.

Example -- Hot Spare Pool Associations

This example shows a hot spare pool associated with two submirrors.