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Disk pool number of disks can survive

Saif

Hi guys, I am new to netapp and I want to know the maximum number of disks failure would still make disk pool running if I have this model

E2860 System Shelf

with 180 disks 14TB in each

I have created one pool for the whole 180 x14TB

I know that 6 disks work as hotspare.

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AlainTansi

So by default, Disk Pool uses RAID level 6. And for RAID level 6 you should have the tolerance of 2 drive failure before any subsequent data lose.

What the 6 Preservation Capacity Drives means is that, slices of free block are reserved on each disk in the pool that sums up to a total equal to 6 disk drives capacity. These are not any 6 physical disks that you can identify them individually.

You can understand more on this by visiting

NetApp Hardware universe https://hwu.netapp.com/Controller/Index?platformTypeId=2357027#none

How do Volume Groups differ from Dynamic Disk Pools in E-Series storage? https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storage_Systems/E-Series_Storage_Array/How_do_Volume_Groups_differ_from_Dynamic_Disk_Pools_in_E-Series_storage%3F

RAID Levels and Data Redundancy on page 20 https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMP1189231

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AlainTansi

That is correct,

For a Disk Pool Drive Count from 128-191, the default number of Drives Reserved for Preservation Capacity should be 6.

https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Infrastructure_Management/E-Series_SANtricity_Management_Software/How_many_drives_should_be_assigned_for_disk_pool_preservation_capacity_in_a_E-Series_system%3F

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Saif

So does that mean if I lost those 6 disks I should immediately replace disks before one more disk fails or I will lose my data

And what about RAID 6 as default RAID for the disk pool?

AlainTansi

So by default, Disk Pool uses RAID level 6. And for RAID level 6 you should have the tolerance of 2 drive failure before any subsequent data lose.

You can understand more on this by visiting

NetApp Hardware universe https://hwu.netapp.com/Controller/Index?platformTypeId=2357027#none

RAID Levels and Data Redundancy on page 20 https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMP1189231

Saif

so that's mean I have the following before I lose data in disk pool
RIAD 6 -(2) disks
reserved capacity 6 disks
total of 8 disks

Thanks a lot for the clarification