Dell EMC Server Administrator Storage Management 9.1

Hot Spare Considerations — 4KBSector Hard-Disk Drives

The following is the Hot Spare considerations (Dedicated and Global Hot Spare) for 4KB sector hard-disk drives supported on PERC 9 hardware controllers:
  • You cannot assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Dedicated Hot Spare for virtual disks created with 512B sector hard-disk drives and vice versa.

  • You cannot assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Global Hot Spare, if the virtual disk created consists of 512B sector hard-disk drives only and vice versa.

  • You can assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Global Hot Spare, if there are 4KB sector hard-disk drives and 512B sector hard-disk drives in the virtual disks created and vice versa.

    NOTE: If you perform this action a warning message is displayed.

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