Re: FAS2050C questions (clustering)

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:57:07AM -0700, Fox, Adam wrote:
> The reason is that the cluster is built as an active/active cluster and
> so each controller must have a root volume, thus each needs a trad vol
> or 1 aggregate.  So the "active/passive" config isn't truly
> active/passive, it's just functionally so.

Ah-ha... the light has turned on in my head.  Makes sense.

>
> There is no way currently to automatically float a spare.  You could
> manually change ownership of a spare disk, but it doesn't do this
> automatically.  ONTAP will whine in the messages file if there are no
> spares, and you will probably want to up the raid.timeout option to give
> you more time to move the spare over.
>

Gotcha.  I'll just have to think about the RAID-4 vs RAID-6 thing then.
Extra 300GB of space might be nice...

Thanks,
Ray