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Hot swap or not hot swap the Hyper-V Storage Spaces disks ?
I have a Storage Spaces in two-way mirrors. I understand it should be able to sustain at most one single disk failure. My question is, once I identify the failed hard drive, can I simply unplug the failed hard disk and plug in the good hard disk without shutting down the server as I usually do on a hardware RAID1? If not, what procedures do I need to do? Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for the reply. My hyper-v is on 2012r2.
Okay, run the PowerShell step to allow automatic rebuilds into free Storage Pool space.
Follow the linked instructions to retire a defective drive. The procedure should be followed step-by-step.
There is no "hot-swap" in Storage Spaces per se. That's a hardware backplane and RAID feature specifically.
Follow the linked instructions to retire a defective drive. The procedure should be followed step-by-step.
There is no "hot-swap" in Storage Spaces per se. That's a hardware backplane and RAID feature specifically.
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Storage Spaces will rebuild the failed disk into free space in the Storage Pool so long as there is enough room. IIRC, that's #GB/TB of lost disk + ~100GB. But to do so, we need to run the following PowerShell command:
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Change the name of the Storage Pool as required.
The TechNet article for working with disks is here.