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How low spare warnings can help you manage your spare disks

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By default, warnings are issued to the console and logs if you have fewer than one hot spare drive that matches the attributes of each drive in your storage system.

You can change the threshold value for these warning messages to ensure that your system adheres to best practices.

About this task

You should set the “min_spare_count” RAID option to “2” to ensure that you always have the minimum recommended number of spare disks.

Step

  1. Set the option to “2”:

    storage raid-options modify -node nodename -name min_spare_count -value 2