How to Add Additional Slices to a Hot Spare Pool

Steps

1. Check Prerequisites for Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components.

2. To add a slice to an existing hot spare pool, use one of the following methods:

   • From the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console, open the Hot Spare Pools node, then choose the hot spare pool you want to change. Choose Action->Properties, then choose the Hot Spares panel. For more information, see the online help.

   • Use the following form of the metahs command:

     metahs -a hot-spare-pool-name slice-to-add

     Use -a for hot-spare-pool-name to add the slice to the specified hot spare pool.

     Use -all for hot-spare-pool-name to add the slice to all hot spare pools. See the metahs(1M) man page for more information.

   ---

   Note –

   You can add a hot spare to one or more hot spare pools. When you add a hot spare to a hot spare pool, it is added to the end of the list of slices in the hot spare pool.

   ---

Example 17–2 Adding a Hot Spare Slice to One Hot Spare Pool

# metahs -a hsp001 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2
hsp001: Hotspare is added

In this example, the -a option adds the slice /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2 to hot spare pool hsp001. The system verifies that the slice has been added to the hot spare pool.

Example 17–3 Adding a Hot Spare Slice to All Hot Spare Pools

# metahs -a -all /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2
hsp001: Hotspare is added
hsp002: Hotspare is added
hsp003: Hotspare is added

In this example, the -a and -all options add the slice /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2 to all hot spare pools configured on the system. The system verifies that the slice has been added to all hot spare pools.