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October 5th, 2021 11:00

Need some advice on how to replace disks (slightly unusual situation)

My VNX5300 (block) has five enclosures - the first three are in production use; the last two are unused. The first two enclosures have several disk faults as follows (the disks are showing as "removed"):

  • Bus 0, Enclosure 0, Disk 1 (replaced by hot spare disk 12 in this enclosure)
  • Bus 0, Enclosure 0, Disk 4
  • Bus 0, Enclosure 0, Disk 5 (replaced by hot spare disk 6 in this enclosure)
  • Bus 0, Enclosure 1, Disk 1

This system is due to be decommissioned, so if possible I need to resolve these issues without buying new disks.

Am I able to physically remove unbound disks from the unused enclosures to replace the four above? If so, are there any commands I need to use in this process? (I have basic knowledge of the NaviSphere CLI.) Or is it literally just a case of: remove "unbound" disk -> remove disk 0_0_1 (for example) -> insert "unbound" disk in 0_0_1 slot?

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October 6th, 2021 09:00

Hello Mattsg2000,

Here is a link to a KB that maybe of assistance.

https://dell.to/3DkCPHB

https://dell.to/3iFztqT

You are going to want to replace the disk one at a time & wait for the copy back to finish before replacing a second drive.  If you replace all the drives at once you will most likely crash your system.

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