1 About this Guide
2 Introduction to maxView Storage Manager
This section introduces the maxView Storage Manager software, explains the concept of “storage space” and provides a checklist of getting-started tasks.
3 Installing maxView Storage Manager
4 Exploring maxView Storage Manager
This section familiarizes you with the main features of the maxView Storage Manager graphical user interface. It describes how to start and login to maxView Storage Manager. It also explains how to get help and log out of maxView Storage Manager when you are finished working with the application.
5 Building Your Storage Space
6 Protecting Your Data
7 Modifying Your Storage Space
This section provides additional scenarios for creating and modifying arrays and logical drives. It explains how to check your logical drives for bad or inconsistent data; optimize controller and logical drive performance; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.
8 Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)
9 Maintaining Physical Devices
10 Monitoring Status and Activity
This section describes how maxView Storage Manager helps you monitor status and activity in your storage space.
11 Managing Your Storage Space
12 Solving Problems
This section describes how to troubleshoot the components in your storage space.
13 Silent Installation on Linux
14 Configuring SNMP Notifications on Linux
15 Selecting the Best RAID Level
16 Icons At-a-Glance
17 Smart Controller Device Status
18 Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device and a Physical Device
19 Revision History
Microchip Information

6.2 Hot Spare Limitations

Hot spares protect redundant logical drives only. To protect non-redundant logical drives, set the spare activation mode of the controller to predictive activation.
You cannot create a hot spare from an NVMe SSD that is already part of an array.
You should select an NVMe SSD that is at least as big as the smallest NVMe SSD in the array that it might replace.
You must designate a NVMe SSD hot spare drive for an array comprised of NVMe SSD drives.
Changing spare type for Shared Dedicated Spare Drive from physical device is not possible. The Array level Spare Management option must be used to change the Spare Type from Dedicated to Auto-Replace when the Dedicated Spare is protecting multiple arrays. By changing the spare type from Dedicated to Auto-Replace, the shared Dedicated Spare gets unassigned, and it does not protect the selected array anymore. The user must assign the ready drives as an Auto-Replace spare to protect the selected array.