Failed drive

[SVHO]

FAS2650

9.7 P22

We have had this unit for almost 7 years. Today one of the two spares failed. There are two aggregates in this unit.

Raid-tec (1st aggregate)
Raid-dp (2nd aggregate)

Question, if a drive other than the non spare failed, would the system automatically take the spare and replaced it with the failed?

Second, when the new part is sent to you, can we replace it ourselves? I was told we have support for onsite replacement. First time dealing with hardware replacement in 7 years (knock on wood).

TT

[SpindleNinja]

1. if a disk that's in a RG / aggr fails, yes, it will grab a spare one of equal type and size.    You'll see it rebuilding after the failure.  

2. Depends on your contract, but typically yes,  a field support person will change the disk out.   By default systems have disk auto assign enabled and it'll just get assigned as the new spare.   

[Ashun]

hi

Yes. If a disk failure occurs within a RAID group, the hot spare disk is automatically assigned to the RAID group to replace the failed disks. The data of the failed disk is reconstructed on the hot spare replacement disk in the background from the RAID parity disk.
If the available hot spare disk is not the same size as the failed disk, a disk of the next larger size is chosen and then downsized to match the size of the disk that it is replacing.

Depending on the service you purchased, on-site support personnel will complete the disk replacement, but you can also choose to replace it yourself