Hot Spare Considerations — T10 Protection Information Capability
Only T10 PI supported physical disks can be assigned as a Dedicated Hot Spare to T10 PI enabled virtual disks.
Physical disks which are T10 PI supported or unsupported can be assigned as Dedicated Hot Spare to T10 PI disabled virtual disks on PERC 9 hardware controllers.
If a T10 PI enabled virtual disk is present along with T10 PI disabled virtual disk, assigning a physical disk which is T10 PI unsupported as Global Hot Spare will be successful.
If only T10 PI disabled virtual disks are present, a T10 PI supported physical disk can be assigned as Global Hot Spare.
A T10 PI enabled virtual disk cannot be reconfigured using a T10 PI non-capable physical disks
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