New disk not owned in NetApp or IBM N3700 SAN

I recently had a hard drive fail on my IBM N3700 SAN.  The spare disk automatically took over when the disk failed.  This is a good thing.  IBM sent a replacement the next day and I was able to swap it out.  Unfortunately the N3700 did not know what to do with the new drive.  I assumed it would automatically make the new drive the online spare.  Wrong.

Here are a few commands to try and fix the problem.  You will need to be at the command line of your device for this to work.

disk show -n Show all the disks that are not assigned to a pool

disk assign auto Assign the unassigend disk to a pool automatically

disk show -v Show all the disks on your SAN

The new disk I received needed to be added to Pool 0 on my N3700.  The disk assign auto command did not work.  The following command did the trick though.

disk assign 0b.17 -p 0

0b.17 is the “Disk” name of the drive that was not owned.  You can find out the “Disk” name after you issue the “disk show -n” command.  The “-p” switch is for Pool and “0″ is the Pool name

To confirm that the new disk is in the correct Pool you can issue the “disk show -v” command.

wizTEQ Staff