Chapter 18. Configuring Hot Spare Disks

Table of Contents

Listing Hot Spare Disks (hotspare list)
Showing Hot Spare Disk Details (hotspare show)
Discovering a Hot Spare Disk Name or UUID (hotspare lookup)
Adding a Physical Disk to the Hot Spare Disk Pool (hotspare add)
Removing a Physical Disk from Hot Spare Disk Pool (hotspare remove)

This chapter describes the commands that you use to configure hot spare disks for the NearStore VTL appliance. It consists of the following sections:

the section called “Listing Hot Spare Disks (hotspare list)”
the section called “Showing Hot Spare Disk Details (hotspare show)”
the section called “Discovering a Hot Spare Disk Name or UUID (hotspare lookup)”
the section called “Adding a Physical Disk to the Hot Spare Disk Pool (hotspare add)”
the section called “Removing a Physical Disk from Hot Spare Disk Pool (hotspare remove)”

Listing Hot Spare Disks (hotspare list)

SYNOPSIS

hotspare list [pdisk_id]

ARGUMENTS

pdisk_id

Physical disk identifier (UUID or serial number)

RESULT

A successful hotspare list command displays a list of physical disks reserved as hot spare replacements. On failure, hotspare list returns a non-zero exit status and relevant error message.


Autocreating a Raid Group (raid autocreate)		Showing Hot Spare Disk Details (hotspare show)