topic Re: spare disk assignment in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62910#M4332 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><DIV><P>There is no way to assign for a specific aggregate. An exception With syncmirror where there is pool0 and pool1 so that spares are used keeping the spare for drives in the same pool where they are resilient across shelves. Sync mirror created plexes on different shelves in different stacks. I guess you could use pools like this without sync mirror to differentiate a spare between two pools of aggregates. </P></DIV></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:57:11 GMT scottgelb 2012-09-17T01:57:11Z spare disk assignment https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62904#M4331 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hy, Can I decide if a spare disk can be only assigned to a specific aggregate?</P><P>I have a FAS 3160 solution.</P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:19:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62904#M4331 EDUZAVALA 2025-06-05T06:19:00Z Re: spare disk assignment https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62910#M4332 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><DIV><P>There is no way to assign for a specific aggregate. An exception With syncmirror where there is pool0 and pool1 so that spares are used keeping the spare for drives in the same pool where they are resilient across shelves. Sync mirror created plexes on different shelves in different stacks. I guess you could use pools like this without sync mirror to differentiate a spare between two pools of aggregates. </P></DIV></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:57:11 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62910#M4332 scottgelb 2012-09-17T01:57:11Z Re: spare disk assignment https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62914#M4333 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The own of filer is my datacenter supplier and it has installed four aggregate and only one aggregate is of my company, and there are two spare disks of my purchased shelve so others aggregates are indirectly using my spares disks.</P><P>What a shame!! </P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 02:34:57 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62914#M4333 EDUZAVALA 2012-09-17T02:34:57Z Re: spare disk assignment https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62919#M4334 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><DIV><P>You could disk replace to one of their disks. A fix after the failure but could be used to reclaim those drives and specify the spare you want to use. </P></DIV></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:52:49 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/spare-disk-assignment/m-p/62919#M4334 scottgelb 2012-09-17T03:52:49Z