NetApp Training Brain Dump: Experimenting

Quick notes on things I tested today:

• If you run a disk fail command, you will have to wait a few hours for the data on that disk to be copied to a spare.
• There is a -i trigger for the disk fail command that will immediately fail the disk, without copying the data.
• If you have no spares and you have a disk that is not assigned and is not in use, you have to assign that disk to the controller before it will be used as a spare.  If you have options disk.auto_assign on, it will have already been assigned to a controller.  In either case, you won't need to add the disk to an aggregate: the system detects it as a spare and grabs it in the place of the failed disk.
• To see how many failed disks you have, use vol status -f
• To see how many spares you have, use vol status -s
• If you want to see the status of your disks, disk show won't do it.  You'll need to use disk show -v to see failed disks, and neither will show spare disks as being spare.  
• You can't resize an aggregate's RAID roups.  You can however use aggr options raidsize to set the size for new RAID Groups that are created for this aggregate.