As long as you do not delete the unavailable SDS, it's unused (free) capacity will be marked as unused-unavailable and it's used capacity will be reduced from the spare.
Once the SDS was powered on, a rebalance will take place, at the end of which, the spare capacity will be back ot it's original size.
Hot spare space is reserved across all nodes. By default it should reserve enough space for a single node failure within a Protection Domain. This can be increased if you desire to have added protection.
Reserving HS space across all nodes results to very fast rebuilds. Think of a 100 node Protection Domain, if one node goes down 99 will work to rebuild the data. It's a very parallel process.
You can lose one node in each Protection Domain without losing access to data. If you define Fault Sets (which are groups of nodes inside a PD that do not protect each other) you can lose a Fault Set (which consists of several node) in each PD simultaneously.
About rebuild ,there are two questions that needs your answer.
Q1>
If one SDS server shutdown (or reboot),rebuild process will start immediately ? or it has one timeout time,for example 30 second ,rebuild will start after timeout
Q2>
Shutdown SDS server,and rebuild process finished. power on SDS server,will the devices in the SDS become available space ?
alexkh
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Posted June 28th, 2015 05:00
Regarding question 2:
As long as you do not delete the unavailable SDS, it's unused (free) capacity will be marked as unused-unavailable and it's used capacity will be reduced from the spare.
Once the SDS was powered on, a rebalance will take place, at the end of which, the spare capacity will be back ot it's original size.