Hi
Brand new MD3200i, 12x4Tb drives. Updated to current firmware 08.20.05.60.
The wizard starts and recommends creation of a disk pool containing all 12 disks.
If this is accepted, the pool is created and status immediately changes to Needs Attention.
When selecting Needs Attention, it is reported that the disk pool is >85% capacity. Clearly this is the case, as the wizard recommends allocation of 12 disks to the pool (100%) including a preservation capacity of 2 disks.
Help states "A disk pool needs sufficient remaining capacity to successfully perfom storage array operations".
The question is why would the wizard knowingly create a 12 disk out of 12 disk pool of 100% if this immediately exceeds the 85% capacity figure? Obviously I can disable this error in the disk pool settings by disabling the Critical Warning Notification threshold, but what storage operations will I be unable to run in this 12 disk configuration? As I understand it there is already two disks worth of capacity reserved within the disk pool to deal with failures. So is the 85% warning erroneous?
Thanks in advance.