

The disks need to be zeroed before addition to the aggregate.

Features and Basic Structure of Netapp LVM and Basic commands Mysimulator commands >priv set diag *>disk unfail -s v5.16 netapp01*> priv set netapp01*> disk zero spares aggr create aggr0 -r 12 -t raid4 Creation of an aggregate with 24 disks has, one disk size is 36gb and 1 parity add after 12 disk aggr create 300gb -d aggr add aggr_name -g raidgroup | -d disk-name… netapp1> sysconfig -r Aggregate aggr0 (online, raid0) (block checksums) Plex /aggr0/plex0 (online, normal, active) RAID group /aggr0/plex0/rg0 (normal) RAID Disk Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type RPM Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks) -– -– -– data v4.16 v4 1 0 FC:B – FCAL N/A 120/246784 126/259200 data v4.17 v4 1 1 FC:B – FCAL N/A 120/246784 126/259200 Spare disks RAID Disk Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type RPM Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks) -– -– -– Spare disks for block or zoned checksum traditional volumes or aggregates spare v4.18 v4 1 2 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.19 v4 1 3 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.20 v4 1 4 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.21 v4 1 5 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.22 v4 1 6 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.23 v4 1 7 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.24 v4 1 8 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.25 v4 1 9 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.26 v4 1 10 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) spare v4.27 v4 1 11 FC:B – FCAL N/A 36/74752 42/87168 (not zeroed) netapp1> aggr create aggr1 -t raid4 4 (create aggr300gb -d Creation of an aggregate with 4 disks has been initiated. Iscsi liscense should be installed in the linux machine.
