Proactive drive copy to HOT SAPRE in VNXe

If you right click on that particular disk you will see the following options:

click on "Copy to Hot Spare " to start the PACO process. You can check the copy process by clicking on the properties. Once the PACO process is completed you will the change in state from "enabled" to "unbound."

Thanks for your response snalluri.

I need this for VNXe storage array not for VNX. i Believe your answer is for VNX

Hi Snalluri,

                what do we mean by he PACO process?

Thanks

Hi,

In VNXe 3200, system monitors drive health by counting the number of errors found. When the number of errors reach the count 60, the drive will declare as unhealthy and invalidated. Multi core Raid will begin the sparing process to a compatible spare drive.

Hi Shr@y,

PACO means Proactive Copy.

The Proactive Copy (PACO) feature is designed to protect data by copying the contents of a drive to a hot spare (HS) drive if it experiences a defined number of media errors before marking the drive as faulted. An improved version of PACO, called PACO-R, is now available. PACO-R is designed to further reduce the likelihood of a double drive fault by allowing more data to be proactively copied to the HS than is currently allowed by PACO

Hi $ree,

   Much appreciated!!

Could you plz share the link or a file that make me understand about the basics of EMC symmetrix and VMAX?

Thanks

Hi Shr@y,

There are some free Fundamental training available for VMAX . You can register it in education.emc.com

The below links may be helpful for you...

Free VMAX3 Fundamentals e-learning

VMAX Documentation Index

Hi Shr@y,

LUN Expansion and migration is same in both VNX.

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-42093   Please try to access this link to register VMAX fundamental training.

Or You can login to https://education.emc.com/portal/  site and search for VMAX Fundamentals under catalog search.