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SnapScale/RAINcloudOS 4.1 Administrator’s Guide
5 – Storage Options
Spare Distributor
Spare Distributor (formerly the Spare Disk Balancer) evenly redistributes spares and peer set
members across the cluster nodes. Maintaining a balance of spare drives helps ensure that
spares are available if a peer set member should fail.
Using Spare Distributor
When the cluster detects an uneven distribution of spare drives, an alert banner is displayed
in the Web Management Interface and the
Spare Distributor
page is enabled.
NOTE: You can click Later to turn off the alert for 24 hours or Hide to dismiss the alert.
Spare Status
Shows the current status:
• OK – Spare drive is healthy and can be used by all peer sets.
• Spare Too Small – Spare is too small to either repair any
existing peer sets or repair
n
existing peer sets.
• Failed – Spare drive has failed.
Refresh
(
button)
Refreshes the page when clicked.
Close
(button)
Closes this page and returns to the main Peer Sets page.
Option
Description
