topic Re: Moving a spare disk into a raid set. in HPE Nimble Storage Solution Specialists

Moving a spare disk into a raid set.

bob425 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:40:14 GMT

Is there a simple CLI or GUI steps to take a 'spare' drive, and change it to be included in the data sets?

Re: Moving a spare disk into a raid set.

Mahesh202 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:44:39 GMT

Hi bob425

Is this a Nimble Storage array?
Could you please specify its model?

Regards
Mahesh

Re: Moving a spare disk into a raid set.

buzzsubash — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:48:12 GMT

Nimble arrays does not have the concept of dedicated spare disk, atleast from Nimble OS 2.1+.

If you are seeing a disk as spare, especially after a replacement, it is essentially pointing to a incompatible disk.
There are no work around available, the disk needs to be replaced.

Re: Moving a spare disk into a raid set. / Followup

bob425 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:19:06 GMT

The array model is CS240.

First spare sent was defective Customer returned original drive into array,, followed by good spare part.

Now the drive is a spare instead of being an active drive in the data sets.

Re: Moving a spare disk into a raid set. / Followup

buzzsubash — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:16:08 GMT

It appears that wrong model number is being used.

Re: Moving a spare disk into a raid set. / Followup

bob425 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:41:06 GMT

We have this resolved. Replaced the drive one more time. It took off to rebuild and went back into the pool.

Thank you for the help, please close the thread.

Re: Moving a spare disk into a raid set. / Followup

Sunitha_Mod — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:35:58 GMT

Hello @bob425,

Great!

We are glad to know you were able to find the solution and we appreciate you for keeping us updated.