How to Change the Associated Hot Spare Pool (DiskSuite Tool)

You can change a hot spare pool's association at any time as long as none of its slices are currently in use as hot spares.

1. Make sure you have met the prerequisites ("Prerequisites for Creating DiskSuite Objects") and have read the preliminary information ("Preliminary Information for Creating Hot Spare Pools").

2. Double-click the Mirror or RAID5 object with the hot spare pool association to be changed in the Objects list.

   The object appears on the canvas.

3. Double-click the Hot Spare Pool object in the Objects list to use as the replacement.

   The object appears on the canvas.

4. Drag the Hot Spare Pool object onto the rectangle in the submirror or RAID5 object containing the hot spare pool to be replaced.

5. Click inside the top rectangle of the object then click Commit.

6. To verify that the hot spare pool was committed, display the Configuration Log.

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   Note -

   To avoid data fabrication, DiskSuite does not allow hot sparing of a metadevice if it contains slices in the "Last Erred" state. For more information, refer to "Overview of Replacing and Enabling Slices in Mirrors and RAID5 Metadevices".

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Example -- Mirror Object with Hot Spare Pool Associations

This example shows a mirror that started with hot spare pool hsp000 associated with each submirror. Submirror d7 is now associated with hsp001.