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September 8th, 2016 17:00

Replacing failed disk with unbound disk on VNX

Hill all,

Current scenario: VNX5300 (VNX1) array with a failed disk and a hot spare taking its place. Rebuilt is complete. There is an unbound disk in the array that has never been a part of this or any other raid groups or storage pools.

My questions are:

1-) Can I physically remove the unbound disk from the array and replace the failed disk with it?

2-) Will Unisphere complain that the unbound disk has been removed and keep the alarm until it's back into the original bay?

Thanks

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September 13th, 2016 19:00

If it is unbound,you can do anything to this disk.

September 18th, 2016 17:00

I went ahead and removed the unbound disk from the DAE one morning. Besides the event generated in Event Logs (and the email we received about a disk being taken offline), there were no issues. In the afternoon, I used that disk to replace the faulty disk. Again, no issues there. Re-balancing started straightaway and array is healthy again.

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