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Drive Replacement - Proactive or Degraded

Replace a degraded drive or proactively replace a drive with the CLI

  1. Identify the drive to be replaced
lsdrive
  1. Collect details of the targeted drive (mdisk id, member id, enclosure id, slot id)
lsdrive <drive id>
  1. Identify available spares in the system to copy targeted drive to
lsdrive -filtervalue use=spare
  1. Copy target drive to available spare
charraymember -member <target member id> -newdrive <drive id of spare> -balanced <id of the mdisk/array>
  1. Monitor copy process
lsarraymemberprogress
  1. Once copy operation is complete, check disk status
lsdrive <drive id>
  1. Replace drive
    [[Drive Replacement - Offline or Spare with CLI]]