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September 2nd, 2010 19:00

Does the VMAX support dynamic sparing ?

There is found the only description of Permanent Sparing in VMAX product guide.

Does the VMAX also support Dynamic Sparing, too or Not ?

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Posted September 3rd, 2010 03:00
According to White Paper document: "The Symmetrix VMAX family uses only permanent sparing"
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Posted September 14th, 2010 07:00
V-max supports both options 1.Traditional approach of replacing the and re-copying data from hotspare 2.Permenant sparing.

Need to specify when the Bin was configured..CE can configures this either way.
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Posted September 14th, 2010 08:00
Hi Srichev,

Can you tell me where you got that info from? It should be corrected. Dynamic sparing does not exist in V-Max, only permanent sparing.

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Posted September 14th, 2010 11:00
Mike,It seems you are correct.i could not locate this info in any of white papers.
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Posted September 18th, 2010 18:00
if a permanent spare is not available which can fit the alogorithem(protection scheme) then spare will not be invoked at all?
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Posted September 19th, 2010 18:00
My experience with VMAx is a drive will fail and most of the time "not" invoke to a spare. The support center is suppose to dial and invoke the perm spare and dispatch the CE to replace the failed drive.