Configuring A Disk Drive Or Solid-State Drive On A Load Source Adapter For Hot Spare By Using The Ibm I Operating System - IBM 8202-E4B Manual

d. Select Start a service tool on the System Service Tools (SST) display. Press Enter.
e. Select Hardware service manager on the Start a Service Tool display. Press Enter.
f. Press F6 (print the configuration) from the Hardware Service Manager display.
g. To return to the Main Menu display, press F3 (Exit) twice and then press Enter.
h. Place the configuration list where you can refer to it in the future.
28. If you are a service provider completing this task, return to the procedure that sent you here.
a. Return to the procedure that sent you here.
29. Complete the following steps for hot spare:
a. Select Work with hot spare protection from the Work with disk configuration menu.
b. Select Start device parity protection - RAID 5 with hot spare or Start device parity protection -
RAID 6 with hot spare depending on the level of parity protection that is wanted.
Configuring a disk drive or solid-state drive on a load source adapter
for hot spare by using the IBM i operating system
To start hot spare protection on your load source adapter you must determine the status of the drive in
the load source slot and configure or exchange that drive, which might require you to turn off the power
to the system.
1. If necessary, start System Service Tools (SST) by typing strsst on the command line of the IBM i
session and pressing Enter.
2. 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.
3. Determine the protection status of all disks 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?
v No: Replace the disk using the following procedure in, "Replacing a disk drive or solid-state drive
in the 8202-E4B, 8202-E4C, 8202-E4D, 8205-E6B, 8205-E6C, or 8205-E6D with the IBM i system or
logical partition power turned on" on page 73.
v Yes: Continue to the next step.
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.
4. 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.
v No non-configured drive is located in a load source capable slot. Continue with the next step
v 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.
5. Choose the drive to be installed or exchanged with the drive in the load source slot by doing the
following:
a. 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.
b. 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.
6. Stop the system if it is running. For instructions on stopping the system, see Stopping the system or
logical partition.
Disk drives or solid-state drives
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