topic Remove NetApp's Spare Disks Visibility in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Remove-NetApp-s-Spare-Disks-Visibility/m-p/43700#M3013 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello people,</P><P></P><P>We have a question.</P><P></P><P>We're right now working with third party storage, we have a V-Series NetApp, and we're not using the NetApp disks, we've migrated all the vol_root volumes that used those disks to IBM disks.</P><P></P><P>The NetApp's Disks are right now working as Spare disks, and we would like to not longer seen them any more.</P><P></P><P>So, our doubt is, if we close the ports, that provide acces to them, we're not longer seen them as spare disks anymore, right?, or we need to do anything else?</P><P></P><P>We really appreciate your help.</P><P></P><P>Best Regards.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:45:08 GMT everiscaixanetapp 2025-06-05T05:45:08Z Remove NetApp's Spare Disks Visibility https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Remove-NetApp-s-Spare-Disks-Visibility/m-p/43700#M3013 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello people,</P><P></P><P>We have a question.</P><P></P><P>We're right now working with third party storage, we have a V-Series NetApp, and we're not using the NetApp disks, we've migrated all the vol_root volumes that used those disks to IBM disks.</P><P></P><P>The NetApp's Disks are right now working as Spare disks, and we would like to not longer seen them any more.</P><P></P><P>So, our doubt is, if we close the ports, that provide acces to them, we're not longer seen them as spare disks anymore, right?, or we need to do anything else?</P><P></P><P>We really appreciate your help.</P><P></P><P>Best Regards.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:45:08 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Remove-NetApp-s-Spare-Disks-Visibility/m-p/43700#M3013 everiscaixanetapp 2025-06-05T05:45:08Z Re: Remove NetApp's Spare Disks Visibility https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Remove-NetApp-s-Spare-Disks-Visibility/m-p/43705#M3014 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You will need to zero spares, remove ownership from these disks and then <STRONG>cold</STRONG> unplug shelves unless you have Data ONTAP 8.2.1 where hot shelf removal is supported.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Jan 2014 03:48:06 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Remove-NetApp-s-Spare-Disks-Visibility/m-p/43705#M3014 aborzenkov 2014-01-21T03:48:06Z