HPE DL380 Gen 10 - MR416i-p - Global Spares

[xdoctax]

Hi All,

Quite new to hardware but have a fairly simply question.

Raid Controller is MR416i-p. Does a global spare work between enclusures?

I have enclosure 252, disks 1-7  Raid 5, Disk 8 Global Hot Spare.
I have enclosure 251, disks 1-2 Raid 1, Disks 3-5 Raid 5. Disk 6 can either extend the raid 5 or be a spare if need be.
Not sure if I need disk 6 to be global spare for this enclosure 251 or it will use disk 8 from the other 252 enclosure.

I feel like I would need a global hotspare for each enclosure but would love some confirmation.

Thank you so much for your time.

[AmRa]

Hi There,

Thank you for the response.

You can create Global Spares using MR controller. Here are the details -

Configuring Spare settings
Procedure
1. From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > HPE MRXXX Gen10+ > Main Menu > Controller Management.
2. In the Controller Management screen, select Advanced Controller Properties .
3. In the Advanced Controller Properties screen, click Spare to configure the Spare settings.
4. In the Spare screen, enable or disable the following settings:
Persistent Spare - The option to have the system backplane or the storage enclosure drive slots dedicated as spare slots. If enabled, the replacement of a
spare drive in the same slot will automatically configure the drive as a spare.
Replace Drive - The option to copy data from a spare drive to a drive.
Replace Drive on SMART Error - The option to start a Replace operation if a SMART error is detected on a drive.
5. Click Apply Changes.

You can also assign a drive as Global spare using MRSA. https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00095199en_us (Page 65)

StoreCLI can also be used for Hot spares - https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=a00048288en_us (Page 37)

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