Re: Configuring Hot spare protection

Larry,

I thought you needed a hot spare for each Raid set, or is that not
correct.
I opted not for the hot spare for that reason, giving up too much valuable
disk space.

Paul

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
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Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 11:32 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Configuring Hot spare protection

Hot spare requires that at least one disk, generally two with SAS, is
available on each Pair of RAID Cards. Hot Spares can protect all the RAID
sets controlled by the RAID cards. That is to stay hot sparing is done at
the Card level not the RAID set level.

Iif all the slots controlled by a RAID card (or card pair) are occupied
then to activate Hot Spare protection you must drain one drive from the
system and remove it from RAID protection before you can flag it to be a
hot spare.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
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On 2/3/2014 11:45 PM, Pushpendra Sharma wrote:

Please let me if we have 7 RAID-5 groups containing 12 disks each and
if we decide to configure hot spare protection then is there a need to
restructure current RAID-5 configuration.
Is it not possible to add 7 new disks and start hot spare protection.?

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