https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/msa1510i-spare-management/m-p/4575190#M93 I have not seen any mechanism to influence that behaviour. But if you replace the failed drive the system should go into the original state so the situation is not permanent. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:40:57 GMT Uwe Zessin 2010-02-01T18:40:57Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/msa1510i-spare-management/m-p/4575189#M92 I have a raid 10 set (12 disks + 2 spares), using two cabinets for redundancy (7 disks each cabinet, 6 active and 1 as spare).<BR />If I turn off a cabinet, the other one works, and when I turn on again the cabinet, in a few minutes raid is recreated automatically.<BR /><BR />Now one disk went fault, and spare disk was automatically picked on the other cabinet.<BR />I was hoping MSA1510i would use a spare in the same cabinet, it would be more logical!<BR />Any way to force this behaviour, using a spare disk in the same cabinet?<BR /><BR />Tonino Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:09:21 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/msa1510i-spare-management/m-p/4575189#M92 Antonio_73 2010-02-01T11:09:21Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/msa1510i-spare-management/m-p/4575190#M93 I have not seen any mechanism to influence that behaviour. But if you replace the failed drive the system should go into the original state so the situation is not permanent. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:40:57 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/msa1510i-spare-management/m-p/4575190#M93 Uwe Zessin 2010-02-01T18:40:57Z