AFF

Align spares

Baiju625
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Hi Experts,

 

Clus1::> storage aggregate show-spare-disks -original-owner n1

Original Owner: n1
Pool0
Root-Data1-Data2 Partitioned Spares
Local Local
Data Root Physical
Disk Type Class RPM Checksum Usable Usable Size Status
---------------- ------ ----------- ------ -------------- -------- -------- -------- --------
1.0.23 SSD-NVM
solid-state - block 862.9GB 62.35GB 1.75TB zeroed

clus1::> storage aggregate show-spare-disks -original-owner -n2

Original Owner: 2
Pool0
Root-Data1-Data2 Partitioned Spares
Local Local
Data Root Physical
Disk Type Class RPM Checksum Usable Usable Size Status
---------------- ------ ----------- ------ -------------- -------- -------- -------- --------
1.0.5 SSD-NVM
solid-state - block 0B 62.35GB 1.75TB zeroed
1.0.23 SSD-NVM
solid-state - block 862.9GB 0B 1.75TB zeroed
2 entries were displayed.

 

This o/p is from a AFF400 system with 12 SSD and using root-data-data partition. Do I need to align the spares on n2?

if yes what is the correct CLI

 

storage disk replace  -disk 1.0.5  -replacement 1.0.23 -action start 

or

storage disk replace  -disk 1.0.23  -replacement 1.0.5 -action start 

 

Also noticed that spare-core status is false, what needs to be done so that it is enabled? please advise.

 

clus1::> storage aggregate show-spare-disks -fields is-sparecore
original-owner disk is-sparecore
----------------- ------ ------------
n2 1.0.5 false
n1 1.0.23 false
n2 1.0.23 false
3 entries were displayed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TMACMD
2,439 Views

How about starting with this output instaead:

storage aggregate show-spare-disks

 

aladd
2,394 Views

Spares should automatically be distributed appropriately.

 

The spare-core status is to specify if there is a spare core present on any of these disks. A spare core is generated when a panic occurs. This is normal output.

Baiju625
2,384 Views

Here is the requested o/p.I am referring to ONTAP 9.8 "Disk and aggregate management" , page 16.

It says:

"When you add partitioned disks to an aggregate, you must leave a disk with both the root and data
partition available as spare for every node. If you do not and your node experiences a disruption,
ONTAP cannot dump the core to the spare data partition."

1) Does this mean on the n2 node it needs both root and spare partition on 1.0.5 disk? 

 

 

Clus1::> storage aggregate show-spare-disks

Original Owner: n1
Pool0
Root-Data1-Data2 Partitioned Spares
Local Local
Data Root Physical
Disk Type Class RPM Checksum Usable Usable Size Status
---------------- ------ ----------- ------ -------------- -------- -------- -------- --------
1.0.23 SSD-NVM
solid-state - block 862.9GB 62.35GB 1.75TB zeroed

Original Owner: n2
Pool0
Root-Data1-Data2 Partitioned Spares
Local Local
Data Root Physical
Disk Type Class RPM Checksum Usable Usable Size Status
---------------- ------ ----------- ------ -------------- -------- -------- -------- --------
1.0.5 SSD-NVM
solid-state - block 0B 62.35GB 1.75TB zeroed
1.0.23 SSD-NVM
solid-state - block 862.9GB 0B 1.75TB zeroed
3 entries were displayed.

aladd
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spare core is when we dump a core file to a spare disk following a panic.

 

in the event we don't have a spare disk available, a spray core is performed. It seems you have a spare disk on each node, which should be sufficient for a coredump as needed.

 

 

andris
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Except... the AFF A400 platform (as do most of the newer models) dumps a coredump into a special partition on the boot device, now.  So, the content about needing spare partitions for coredump no longer applies. That said, you still want spare partitions for RAID recovery operations.

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