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ONTAP 9 assign a disk as a spare

theism — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:32:08 GMT

Hi all,

I want to assign a new disk as a new spare but ontap set the 'container type' to 'shared' and not to 'spare'.

I try with 😆 storage disk assign -disk 1.0.15 -oppl 0 -owner OwnerName

... so what can I do?

Greetings

Michael

Re: ONTAP 9 assign a disk as a spare

pedro_rocha — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:18:42 GMT

Hello,

Do you use storage pools or drive partitioning?

Re: ONTAP 9 assign a disk as a spare

theism — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 06:40:42 GMT

Hi Pedro,

we use storage pools.

Kind regards,

Re: ONTAP 9 assign a disk as a spare

Mjizzini — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:01:23 GMT

If it is a used disk that has partitions already, try to:

Assign all partition.

storage disk assign -disk <disk id> -owner nodename -force storage disk assign -disk <disk id> -owner nodename -root true -force storage disk assign -disk <disk id> -owner nodename -data true -force

Remove foreign aggregate if applicable.

Set d
Storage aggregate remove-stale-record -nodename -aggregate

Delete the partitions.

System node run -node -command disk unpartition -disk

Re: ONTAP 9 assign a disk as a spare

pedro_rocha — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:09:34 GMT

Then try what Mjizzini said...

Re: ONTAP 9 assign a disk as a spare

pedro_rocha — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:10:02 GMT

Then try what Mjizzini said

Re: ONTAP 9 assign a disk as a spare

theism — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:03:31 GMT

yesterday I configured the hard drive together with the netapp support team.

- first switch to the node of the cluster in which the disk is located

- then unpartitioning the disk

- then zeroing the disk

then I got the hard drive as a "spare" type

but today it's like before, something is wrong in our configuration ... now I'm waiting for the next meeting with the netapp support team

Re: ONTAP 9 assign a disk as a spare

tahmad — Fri, 21 May 2021 03:59:43 GMT

Hello @theism ,

Did you find a solution for your query?