Although the actual story I want to point out to you is on the EMC Community Network website (also called ECN), I would like to invite you to join the discussion there:
https://community.emc.com/thread/148025?tstart=0
If you’d like to discuss anything here, you’re welcome to do so.
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How does an EMC Clariion or VNX decide which Hot Spare will be used for any failed drive?
First of all not the entire failed drive will be rebuilt, but only the LUNs that reside on the failed drive. Furthermore all LUNs on the failed drive will be rebuilt to the same Hot Spare, so a single failed drive will be replaced by a single Hot Spare. So if for example a 600GB drive fails with only 100GB worth of LUNs on it, in theory a 146GB drive could be invoked to rebuild the data. The location of the last LUN block on the failed drive specifies how large the Hot Spare needs to be. If on a 600GB drive the last block of the last LUN sits on “location 350GB”, but the amount of disk space used by all LUNs residing on that drive is 100GB, the 146 and 300GB Hot Spares aren’t valid choices, since the last block address is beyond the 300GB mark (350GB). So valid Hot Spares would be 400GB or larger.
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