Dell OMSS Only hot spare available is a SAS disk

Dell.WindowsServer.StorageManagement.Alert.2207 (Rule)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

The only hot spare available is a SAS disk. SAS disks cannot replace SATA disks.

Causes

The only physical disk available to be assigned as a hot spare is using SAS technology. The physical disks in the virtual disk are using SATA technology. Because of this difference in technology, the hot spare cannot rebuild data if one of the physical disks in the virtual disk fails.

Cause	Resolutions
The only hot spare available is a SAS disk arg1.	Add a SATA disk that is large enough to be used as the hot spare and assign the new disk as a hot spare.

Resolutions

Add a SATA disk that is large enough to be used as the hot spare and assign the new disk as a hot spare.

Element properties:

Target

Dell.WindowsServer.Server

Category

Alert

Enabled

True

Event_ID

2207

Event Source

Server Administrator

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

Warning

Alert Priority

Normal

Remotable

True

Alert Message

Dell OMSS Only hot spare available is a SAS disk

Event Description: {0}

Event Log

System

Member Modules:

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DS	DataSource	Microsoft.Windows.EventProvider	Default
Alert	WriteAction	System.Health.GenerateAlert	Default
WriteToDW	WriteAction	Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.PublishEventData	Default

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