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4243 from a 7-mode to a cluster-mode

ESISMONDO
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Hello everyone,

we are running into an issue, i.e. we had a 4243 shelf moved from a dismissed 7-mode system to a new cluster mode system. This shelf was not formatted nor placed any of those disks in spare mode before moving.

We can actually see the 24 disks from the clustered. The problem is that disks are not seen as "spare" but as "unowned" and so we can't format them in cluster-mode with zeroingspares function.

This also leads to strange issues if we try to do any operation on those disks. Being more specific, if we assign any one of those disks to a controller, the system create a new aggregate with raid size 20, with the single disk and 19 "invisible non existant" disks in FAILED state. The aggregate is then invisible anywhere because is also put in an offline state.

Any suggestion how we should proceed?

Thank you very much.

Emanuele

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