Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System: Spare disk may not be freed up after the data disk is online

Asset ID:	1-72-1197903.1
Update Date:	2011-05-19
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Solution 1197903.1 : Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System: Spare disk may not be freed up after the data disk is online

Applies to:

Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System - Version: Not Applicable and later   [Release: N/A and later ]
Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System - Version: Not Applicable and later    [Release: N/A and later]
Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage System - Version: Not Applicable and later    [Release: N/A and later]
Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System - Version: Not Applicable and later    [Release: N/A and later]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

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Spare disk should be marked as available after the data disk comes online.
However due to the below mentioned bug the spare disk continues to be part of the pool.

Cause

This issue is due to an appliance firmware bug

@ <SUNBUG: 6913532> Spare disk not freed up after the data disk is online.

Solution

A support call is required to fix this issue.

Internal:

Identify the spare disk which has to be relinquished and then use the zpool detach as below.
# zpool detach <pool-name> <spare-device>

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