Hot Spare

[ToniTester]

Hello everyone, I have created a RAID 5 array of 7 SSD's and would like to add the 8 disk as a hot spare. I have an MR 416i-p Gen 11 as a RAID controller. Thanks for your support.

[rabindra11sharm]

Dear  ToniTester 

Please check the below proccess.

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).

Hope It will help you to resolve your concern. 

if it is solving you concern Please mark this as solution provided. if you need more help please reply on this.

[TVVJ]

Hello,

You may refer to pages 68-69 of the "HPE MR Storage Administrator User Guide" for configuring spare drives.

Regards,

[support_s]

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