So when you have a drive that fails in your MD1000 and you have a hotspare that is configured the hotspare configured it takes over. Now when you replace the drive with a new one the replacement drive needs to be configured as the hotspare. Now if you want the original hotspare drive to go back to being a hotspare then what you need to do is to pull that drive so that the replacement drive which should be marked as a global hotspare will engage. Once the hotspare has completed rebuilding then insert the original hotspare drive and mark it as a global hotspare drive & it will be your hotspare again.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
I'm at a loss. I took over this system from someone else so I'm not 100% sure what some of the settings are. With that said, when I look into the Hot Spare Protection Policy I see nothing is selected there and I can't determine that another drive is set as a hot spare. Does that change anything?
I read something some where about deleting a virtual drive and re-configuring but I'm not sure that's the way to go or what exactly I should do. I'm hesitant to delete anything and potentially lose data.
1. Set the replacement drive that you ordered as a global hotspare drive from OMSA or the PERC bios utility.
2. Once the hot spare shows as a hotspare drive then you are done as you have all drive back online.
3. Now if you want all your disk to be in order as it was setup before the drive failed then you would need to pull the drive that was your hotspare & let the new hotspare drive take over.
4. Once the copy to the new hotspare drive has finished then you can insert the drive back into the slot and make it your hotspare drive again & everything will be the same as it was before the first drive failed.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
DELL-Sam L
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November 12th, 2014 10:00
Hello Muquia,
So when you have a drive that fails in your MD1000 and you have a hotspare that is configured the hotspare configured it takes over. Now when you replace the drive with a new one the replacement drive needs to be configured as the hotspare. Now if you want the original hotspare drive to go back to being a hotspare then what you need to do is to pull that drive so that the replacement drive which should be marked as a global hotspare will engage. Once the hotspare has completed rebuilding then insert the original hotspare drive and mark it as a global hotspare drive & it will be your hotspare again.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Muquia
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November 12th, 2014 11:00
I'm at a loss. I took over this system from someone else so I'm not 100% sure what some of the settings are. With that said, when I look into the Hot Spare Protection Policy I see nothing is selected there and I can't determine that another drive is set as a hot spare. Does that change anything?
I read something some where about deleting a virtual drive and re-configuring but I'm not sure that's the way to go or what exactly I should do. I'm hesitant to delete anything and potentially lose data.
DELL-Sam L
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November 12th, 2014 13:00
Hello Muquia,
OK what you want to do:
1. Set the replacement drive that you ordered as a global hotspare drive from OMSA or the PERC bios utility.
2. Once the hot spare shows as a hotspare drive then you are done as you have all drive back online.
3. Now if you want all your disk to be in order as it was setup before the drive failed then you would need to pull the drive that was your hotspare & let the new hotspare drive take over.
4. Once the copy to the new hotspare drive has finished then you can insert the drive back into the slot and make it your hotspare drive again & everything will be the same as it was before the first drive failed.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.