Shared storage SAS HDD (IBM Storwize v3700 new SAS adding )

[Sanithsadananda]

Hello Team,

    We are using IBM storwize v3700 as shared storage for 8 ESXi's , unfortunately 1 SAS Hdd corrupted and we have configured 1 spare hdd and that spare hdd taken as active , Now we got new hdd from vendor and I have inserted the new hdd , But after adding and configuring the new hdd not seems to be spare , I want to make the hdd as spare like my first image ,  you can find the attched screenshot for clarification, Please advise me , thanks in advance .

Before HDD failure :

After HDD failure :

After new HDD adding :

After Final configuration:-

[rcporto]

Just right click the new disk and click Mark -> Candidate... depending of your configuration, all data that was rebuild on spare disk will be copied to the new candidade disk and the spare will be release. If the data do not copy to the new disk, just right click again and mark the disk as Spare.

[Sanithsadananda]

Hello Richardson ,

  Thanks for your response , but all options under mark as tab is disabled , newly attached hdd now under mdisk2 , i want to remove it from mdisk2 first . could you please guide me to configure like below. second image shows the current status of the hdd when I tried with right click option.

[rcporto]

You should do the operation of Mark on disk with Drive ID 18 (the disk with unused status), not on disk with Drive ID 4.

[Sanithsadananda]

Hello Richardson ,

     let me explain what I have done from first onwards.

* After the addition of new hdd , it taken automatically with drive ID 4 and drive slot 15 ,

*then I went  to events tab , and select Run this fix procedure option , after that step it came under mdisk 2 ,

As per your suggestion i tried with Drive ID 18 also , but result giving the same ,  please find the attached .

[rcporto]

Just to make sure if I understand you, what you want is:

1st: that the disk with Drive ID 4 on slot 15 show as Member of MDisk2.

2nd: that the disk with Drive ID 18 on slot 1 shows as Spare status.

If yes for both, please attach a new image (Go to Internal Storage -> All Internal) containing status of all your disk and let me know if there is any Running Tasks.

[Sanithsadananda]

Hello Richardson ,

  Now all seems to be fine , thanks for advises and replies.