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What sparing criteria does the 'Low number of spare disks' healthcheck use?

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Applies to

  • All FAS systems
  • All AFF systems
  • All ASA systems

Answer

The drive-sparing criteria that the check uses are:

  • Drives are broken up into groups of drive types that can be mixed into RAID groups/aggregates and also used as spares for each other
  • The default value for the raid.disktype.enable option is off, which allows the mixing of disk types. What this means is that the following disk types are considered to be equivalent for the purposes of creating and adding to aggregates, and spare management:
    • BSAS, SATA, and ATA
      • GROUP | [ATA, BSAS, SATA, FSAS] | with the option raid.disktype.enable off or raid.mix.hdd.disktype.capacity on
    • FCAL and SAS
      • GROUP | [FCAL, SAS] | with the option raid.disktype.enable off or raid.mix.hdd.disktype.performance on
  • With the option raid.disktype.enable on or raid.mix.hdd.disktype off, they disable the mixing of supported drive types.
    • GROUP | FCAL | with the option raid.disktype.enable on or raid.mix.hdd.disktype.performance off
    • GROUP | SAS | with the options raid.disktype.enable on or raid.mix.hdd.disktype.performance off
    • GROUP | ATA | with the option raid.disktype.enable on or raid.mix.hdd.disktype.capacity off
    • GROUP | SATA | with the option raid.disktype.enable on or raid.mix.hdd.disktype.capacity off
  • A larger drive in the same group can be used as a spare for smaller drives.
  • The sparing requirements that the check uses are:
    Drives per node of each drive group  Required spares per node
    1 - 100 1
    101 - 400 2
    401 - 600 3
    601+ 4
  • For SSDs, the requirements are: 1 full spare SSD OR 1 spare partition for each partition in use on that node

Additional Information

Minimum Number of Spare Disks Documentation

 

 

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