How to Check Status of Hot Spares and Hot Spare Pools (Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide)

Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

How to Check Status of Hot Spares and Hot Spare Pools

To view the status of a hot spare pool and its hot spares, use one of the following methods:

From the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console, open the Hot Spare Pools node and select a hot spare pool. Choose Action->Properties to get detailed status information. For more information, see the online help.
Run the following form of the metastat command:
metastat hot-spare-pool-name

Note –

The metahs command can also be used to check the status of hot spare pool.

Here is sample output from the metastat command on a hot spare pool.

# metastat hsp001
hsp001: 1 hot spare
        c1t3d0s2                Available       16800 blocks

The following table explains hot spare pool states and possible actions to take.

Table 16–1 Hot Spare Pool States (Command Line)


State	Meaning	Action
Available	The hot spares are running and ready to accept data, but are not currently being written to or read from.	None.
In-use	This hot spare pool includes slices that have been used to replace failed components in a redundant volume.	Diagnose how the hot spares are being used. Then, repair the slice in the volume for which the hot spare is being used.
Broken	There is a problem with a hot spare or hot spare pool, but there is no immediate danger of losing data. This status is also displayed if all the hot spares are in use or if any hot spares are broken.	Diagnose how the hot spares are being used or why they are broken. You can add more hot spares to the hot spare pool, if desired.