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June 28th, 2016 08:00
Array has fewer drives than expected?
I have an old PS4000 that is no longer under warranty and had a failed drive. I decided to "reset" the PS4000 and remove the bad drive assuming that the array will be created fresh and automatically assign a spare. This has not happened and although the array was created its complaining about the lack of drives or what it expected to have installed. Are the equallogics not capable of running with less than a full population of disks? Is there a way I can assign a hot spare since this did not happen automatically? I left slot 15 unpopulated. Is this the slot that the array would normally use as a hot spare?
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Troy
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tkutil
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June 29th, 2016 07:00
My PS4000 had 16 drives. One failed and one was foreign for some reason. After removing this unit from the group I powered it off. Removed 2 drives and then ran a RESET on it, created a new standalone group and initialized it as RAID6. I assumed it would automatically make a raid group out of the 14 remaining drives and assign spares from that set of drives. Instead it just created a RAID6 with no spares.