HP StorageWorks D2700 DAS - adding spare disk

HP StorageWorks D2700 DAS - How to add spare disk



1.  Login to the server and go to the HP Array configuration utility.
      Select the "SAS Array" for which we have add the spare disk.
      Here we have selected the "SAS Array B".'
   
      Then click on the "Spare Management" button shown on the right side of the window.

2.  Select the disk from "Unassigned Drives" group and click save.
      Here we are adding 1 spare disk. So selected the disk in Bay 10 and click "save" button to assign it as spare disk for the "SAS Array B".

3.  Now can see the disk is assigned as a spare disk for the "SAS Array B".

HP Storage P2000 G3 MSA - Delete a vdisk and create a new vdisk

One of the vdisk on the HP Storage P2000 G3 MSA was showing fault.
I got an error message saying that "The virtual disk is offline. Disks may be down or missing. Data may be lost".

We had 2 hdd failed in the vdiks, we had this failed hdd's replaced.
The 2 hdd failure has caused the raid 5  vdisk to fail.


Now I couldn't re-add the new disk because of the raid failure.

So I had to delete the vdisk and create a new vdisk and volumes under the vdisk.