New disk not owned in NetApp or IBM N3700 SAN

June 3, 2008 by  
Filed under Tip of The Day

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.

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