Designating a storage drive as a hot spare in SANtricity or MDSM for Security Analytics

Products

• Security Analytics

Issue/Introduction

By default, the initial configuration should have created hot spares for the storage array.  In certain situations where the hot spare is removed or unassigned, you may have to reassign the drive as a hot spare for the storage array.

Environment

NetApp E5660 storage array

Dell MD3860 storage array

Resolution

In SANtricity (or MDSM), do the following:

1. On the Hardware tab, right-click the "Unassigned" drive that needs to be designated as the hot spare.
2. Select "Hot Spare Coverage"
3. Select "Manually assign individual drives" and click OK
4. Enter the Administrator password if prompted
5. The drive should show up with the blue " + " designating it as a hot spare

To confirm that the hot spare is available for all volumes (a global spare, which it should have done by default), do the following:

1. On the Hardware tab, right-click the newly designated hot spare drive
2. Select "Hot Spare Coverage"
3. Select "View/change current hot spare coverage" and click OK
4. Select the drive in the "Hot spares drives" table on the right
5. In the "Details" dialog at the bottom of the window, confirm that it is protecting and associated with all volumes that exist in the storage array.