topic Re: Aggregate creation... ending up with too many spares... in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-creation-ending-up-with-too-many-spares/m-p/18252#M4318 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>agg create SATA2 -B 64 -r 16 12@847GB for 1TB disks</P><P>agg create SATA2 -B 64 -r 16 12@1695GB for 2TB disks</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:53:51 GMT spence 2011-03-02T19:53:51Z Aggregate creation... ending up with too many spares... https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-creation-ending-up-with-too-many-spares/m-p/18247#M4316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>FAS2040</P><P>OnTap 8.0.1RC2</P><P></P><P>I had a 14 disk shelf added to the head and wanted to create a new 64-bit aggregate... ran the following from the CLI:</P><P></P><P>agg create SATA2 -B 64 -r 16 SATA 12</P><P></P><P>which I believed would add 12 disks to the aggregate (10d+2p) and leave 2 of the 14 disks as spares... yet I ended up with 3 spares. Just curious if I'm interepreting the command correctly or am I overlooking something.</P><P></P><P>TIA</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:59:08 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-creation-ending-up-with-too-many-spares/m-p/18247#M4316 bobby_gillette 2025-06-05T06:59:08Z Re: Aggregate creation... ending up with too many spares... https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-creation-ending-up-with-too-many-spares/m-p/18252#M4318 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>agg create SATA2 -B 64 -r 16 12@847GB for 1TB disks</P><P>agg create SATA2 -B 64 -r 16 12@1695GB for 2TB disks</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:53:51 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-creation-ending-up-with-too-many-spares/m-p/18252#M4318 spence 2011-03-02T19:53:51Z