Hot Spare Considerations—Block Size 4 KB Hard-Disk Drives

The following are the Hot Spare considerations (Dedicated and Global Hot Spare) for Block Size 4 KB hard-disk drives supported on PERC 11 and later series of hardware controllers:
  • You cannot assign Block Size 4 KB hard-disk drives as Dedicated Hot Spare for virtual disks that are created with 512 B sector hard-disk drives and the opposite way.
  • You cannot assign Block Size 4 KB hard-disk drives as Global Hot Spare, if the virtual disk created consists of 512 B sector hard-disk drives only and the opposite way.
  • You can assign Block Size 4 KB hard-disk drives as Global Hot Spare, if there are Block Size 4 KB hard-disk drives and 512 B sector hard-disk drives in the virtual disks that are created and the opposite way.
    NOTE: If you perform this action a warning message is displayed.

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