Removing a Hot Standby HDD

[Colin_29]

I wish to remove a hot standby drive from a RAID5 configuration to free up the slot. Is it possible to do this from the ACU.

[Rahul Sharma]

I am sure in IBM server you can bring out the hotspare drive out by marking it as defunt drive. I am sure that in acu also there is one option. I think first you have to mark the drive is offline or defunt and then remove and replace the drive and then bring it back has hot spare.

[Colin_29]

Thanks Rahul but what I am trying to do is totally remove the drive so I can reuse the slot.

[Rahul Sharma]

then in that case just mark as defunt driver and take it out. The only thing which will happen is that you will loose a hot spare. That is all.

[Colin_29]

Thanks I will give it a try.

[Vijay_44]

Colin, what you need to do is remove the online spare from the array.