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Not enough spare disk

TransX
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Hi everyone, i am fairly new to NetApp. A hard drive failed and we replaced it. after that we have a error message: There are not enough spare disks. /aggr0/plex0/rg0: Please add spare disks supporting block checksums

 

 

how i can make 1d.02.17 (new hard drive just replaced) to be a spare please?

 

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thanks

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asulliva
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It looks like the partner node claimed the disk.  You'll need to remove the disk from the partner and change ownership to the node which needs it.  I would recommend contacting support to have them walk you through the process.

 

Andrew

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TransX
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Hi Andrew,

 

thanks for your suggestion. do you know is it only way i can do it in command line? seem it doesnt support GUI.

if so, could you provide some direction or any command i have to use please?

 

 

thanks

 

 

 

 

asulliva
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As @ekashpureff mentioned, there's some gotchas that can happen (e.g. making sure that the disk really is a spare on the partner...), I really can't recommend strongly enough that you contact support and ask them to walk through it.

 

That being said, at a highlevel, the process is to remove ownership of the disk on the current node then take ownership from the other node.  The commands are going to be different if you're using 7-mode vs clustered.  For cDOT, it would be something along the lines of "storage disk removeowner" followed by "storage disk assign".

 

Andrew

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ekashpureff
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TransX -

 

It's not a full list of all of your drives.

 

You'd have to look at the partner view to see whether that drive is a spare for the partner.

 

You could unassign a spare drive(s) from the partner, then assign to this controller.

 

See the 'disk unassign' and 'disk assign' commands.

 


I hope this response has been helpful to you.

 

At your service,

 

Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr.
Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff
Senior NetApp Instructor, FastLane US http://www.fastlaneus.com/
(P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)

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