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How to create a spare disk

johnny_lin
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hi all,

I'm a flash man in netapp storage world. i have some questiosn about the setting of spare disk of FAS2040.

DETAILS:

version: 7.3.4

status:

"There are not enough spare disks. /aggr0/plex0/rg0: Please add spare disks to

any pool supporting block checksums with minimum"

NIS-IDD-Filer2> sysconfig -r
Aggregate aggr0(1) (failed, raid_dp, foreign, partial) (block checksums)
  Plex /aggr0(1)/plex0 (offline, failed, inactive)
    RAID group /aggr0(1)/plex0/rg0 (partial)

      RAID Disk Device  HA  SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type  RPM  Used (MB/blks)    Phys (MB/blks)
      --------- ------  ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- --------------    --------------
      dparity   FAILED          N/A                   847555/1735794176
      parity    FAILED          N/A                   847555/1735794176
      data      FAILED          N/A                   847555/1735794176
      data      FAILED          N/A                   847555/1735794176
      data      FAILED          N/A                   847555/1735794176
      data      0c.00.9 0c    0   9   SA:B   0  SATA  7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816
      Raid group is missing 5 disks.

Aggregate aggr0 (online, raid_dp) (block checksums)
  Plex /aggr0/plex0 (online, normal, active, pool0)
    RAID group /aggr0/plex0/rg0 (normal)

      RAID Disk Device  HA  SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type  RPM  Used (MB/blks)    Phys (MB/blks)
      --------- ------  ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- --------------    --------------
      dparity   0c.00.0 0c    0   0   SA:B   0  SATA  7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816
      parity    0c.00.2 0c    0   2   SA:B   0  SATA  7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816
      data      0c.00.4 0c    0   4   SA:B   0  SATA  7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816
      data      0c.00.7 0c    0   7   SA:B   0  SATA  7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816
      data      0c.00.6 0c    0   6   SA:B   0  SATA  7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816
      data      0c.00.8 0c    0   8   SA:B   0  SATA  7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816


Pool1 spare disks (empty)

Pool0 spare disks (empty)

what i wanna do is setting device 0c.00.9 as a spare disk for aggr0, then what should i do?

thank you in advcance.

BR

Lin

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aborzenkov
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You need to destroy foreign aggregate aggr0(1). Any disk not part of aggregate will be spare disk.

johnny_lin
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great, after i destoried aggr0(1), device 0c.00.9 becomes spare disk automaticly and the system's global staus also becomes normal.

thx man !

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