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June 29th, 2018 22:00
Can I convert existing in use disk to hot swap?
I do have MD 3200i + 2 MD1200, they are end of life and we plan to retire in 3- 6 months.
meantime, Is it possible to convert in use disk as hot spare, I do have lot of free space.
I do have 2 disk /raid 6 group configured with VMware 5.5
Can I also exclude the 2 failed disk I have which was replaced by hotspare.
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July 2nd, 2018 07:00
Hello Beadmin,
If the drives are not part of any virtual disks then you can create a hot spare drive. Here is a link to the administrator guide & if you look on page 81 it explains how to configure a hot spare. https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/md32xx_md36xx_administrator%20guide_en%20us.pdf You can’t remove drives from a virtual disk without first destroying the virtual disk and then recreate the Virtual disk with the size that you want.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.