A hot-swap rebuild refers to a rebuild operation that is started by the controller when it detects that a drive that is part of an array and in the defunct state has been removed and reinserted on the SCSI cable or backplane. The reinsertion of the physical drive, whether it is the same drive or a new drive, will trigger the controller to start the rebuild operation. During the rebuild operation, the drive being rebuilt is in the rebuild state, and the logical drive remains critical until the rebuild operation has been successfully completed.
On most servers, when a hot-spare drive is available, the rebuild operation begins automatically without the need to replace the failed drive. If more than one drive fails within the same array, no rebuild takes place. If multiple drives fail in separate arrays (one physical drive per array), the controller initiates a rebuild operation for the logical drives within the array containing the first failed physical drive. This rebuild operation is performed on the first hot-spare drive of sufficient size to become a valid member of the array.
Complete the following steps to start a hot-swap rebuild:
Otherwise, replace the physical drive with a new drive that is the same
size (or larger) and continue with the rebuild operation.
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