To start hot spare protection on your load source adapter
you will need to determine the status of the disk drive or solid-state
drive in the load source slot and configure or exchange that drive,
which might require you to turn off the system power.
- If necessary, start System Service Tools (SST) by typing strsst on
the command line of the IBM® i session
and pressing Enter.
- Type your service tools user ID and service tools password
on the Start Service Tools (STRSST) Sign On display. Press Enter.
Note: The service tools password is case sensitive.
- Determine the protection status of all drives controlled
by the load source adapter. Do all drives that are a member of a
parity sets or mirror sets have a status of active?
Restriction: There must be a drive of the same or
larger capacity located in a load source capable slot to act as a
hot spare for the active load source drive. The next steps will have
you change the drive in the desired slot if needed.
Attention: If the drive acting as hot spare for the load source
is of smaller capacity you can suffer data loss.
- Determine whether a non-configured drive of the same or
larger capacity is located in a load source capable slot but is not
the active load source. Only parallel SCSI places a restriction
on the location of the load source. Any SAS, Fibre Channel, or virtual
drive does not have this restriction.
- No non-configured drive is located in a load source capable
slot. Continue with the next step
- Yes a non-configured drive is located in a load source capable
slot. Return to the procedure that sent you here, and continue to
the next step of that procedure.
- Choose the drive to be installed
or exchanged with the drive in the load source slot by doing the following:
- Select a drive in a parity set located in a load source
capable slot, but is not the active load source drive, and record
the location of this drive.
- Select a non-configured drive of the same or larger
capacity from either a non-load source slot or a failed drive you
are replacing with a non-configured drive.
- Stop the system if it is running. For instructions on stopping
the system, see Stopping the system or logical partition.
- Exchange the drives from the two locations you recorded
in step 5 by
removing both drives and placing them into the other drives slot.
- Start the system. See Starting
the system or logical partition.
- Return to the procedure that sent you here and continue
with the next step in that procedure.
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