On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:57:07AM -0700, Fox, Adam wrote:
The reason is that the cluster is built as an active/active cluster and so each controller must have a root volume, thus each needs a trad vol or 1 aggregate. So the "active/passive" config isn't truly active/passive, it's just functionally so.
Ah-ha... the light has turned on in my head. Makes sense.
There is no way currently to automatically float a spare. You could manually change ownership of a spare disk, but it doesn't do this automatically. ONTAP will whine in the messages file if there are no spares, and you will probably want to up the raid.timeout option to give you more time to move the spare over.
Gotcha. I'll just have to think about the RAID-4 vs RAID-6 thing then. Extra 300GB of space might be nice...
Thanks, Ray