3-10 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
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New disks are ones that have never been used. Perform the following steps to install
new disks.
1. Install one or more disks a ccording to the refer to the Installation and Trouble-
shooting Guide for your PowerVault 700N storage system.
The system displays a message confirming that one or more disks were installed,
then waits 15 seconds as the disk(s) is turned on. The system recognizes the
disks as a hot spare disks.
If you added multiple disks, they might require 2540 seconds to come up to
speed as the system checks the device addresses on each adapter and returns to
normal operation.
2. Type the following command:
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3. Check the sysconfig -r output to verify that the new disk has been added.
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To add new disks to a volume, perform the following steps:
1. Enter the command
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to verify that there are spare disks available for you to add.
2. Add the disks to a volume by entering the command
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where
volume
is the name of the volume and

ndisks

is the number of disks
you want to add to the volume.
Refer to the vol(1) man page for details about adding disks to volumes.
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When a RAID disk has failed, you need not enter any commandsjust remove the
failed disk from the PowerVault 700N storage system.
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If you want to swap disks because you want to use a hot spare disk in another filer,
perform the following steps:
1. Type the following command and use the output to determine the disk number:
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