This wizard guides you through the process of creating hot spare pools. No changes to your system or storage configuration will take place until the end of the process, at which point you will have a final opportunity to review and approve the actions to be taken.
This process includes:
Selecting a disk set (or proceeding without a disk set)
Naming the new hot spare pool
Selecting components that will make up the new hot spare pool
Confirming the commands to be executed, then completing the process.
In this step, choose either:
Don't Create State Database Replicas if you have existing State Database Replicas on your system that you want to use, or
Create New State Database Replicas if you want to add additional State Database Replicas to contain information about your configuration.
If you select this option, this wizard will be cancelled and a new wizard will be started to create the state database replicas. When you have completed that wizard, you may restart this wizard to create a new hot spare pool.
The state database stores information on disk about the state of your Enhanced Storage configuration. Enhanced Storage automatically updates the state database when an administrator changes the configuration or if a state change, such as a physical device failure, occurs. The state database is replicated across multiple copies to ensure that the data is always valid and protected against data loss. Enhanced Storage requires that the state database and state database replicas exist.