Moving a spare disk into a raid set.

[bob425]

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

[Mahesh202]

Hi bob425

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

Regards
Mahesh

[buzzsubash]

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.

[bob425]

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.

[buzzsubash]

It appears that wrong model number is being used.

[bob425 · Accepted solution]

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.

[Sunitha_Mod]

Hello @bob425,

Great!

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