How to add a "hot spare" to pool from GUI?

[SnoppyFloppy]

Hi

As the title says, are there a way from the GUI to add a hot spare to an existing (mirrored) pool?

Thanks in advance

 

[danb35]

It'd be using the "extend pool" feature.

 

[SnoppyFloppy]

Okay thanks.

 

[johnnyt]

It'd be using the "extend pool" feature.

What's the process/selection for TrueNAS-12.0-U8? I don't see an "extend pool" option where I see videos showing it was in FreeNAS 11.3. See attached screenshot. I tried "expand" but it didn't give me option to just add drive as a spare. I expected to see the page you get when you create a pool.

Also attached a screenshot of one of the two pools to which I want to add a spare. Am using mirror for redundancy in both (not RAID), in case that's relevant.

 

[Alecmascot]

As it says in the documentation.... that nobody reads : follow the Add Vdev route and select the type.....

 

[johnnyt]

Ok, for all the other other idiots like me who searched the internet, youtube, AND the documentation but couldn't find the proper instructions, here are the steps to follow:

In the pool for which you want to add a spare, click the settings wheel and select Add Vdevs,

On the next page you have to pull down the "ADD VDEV" menu to select "Hot Spare"



You then chose a drive of the same size as the VDev you want to support/protect and add it to the "Spare VDev" section

 

[Ppriorfl]

Thanks for taking the time to post that description!

 

[dark passages]

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[MoonbaseAlpha]

and go to Pool Status for viewing the config

 

[Jimbob]

Ok, for all the other other idiots like me who searched the internet, youtube, AND the documentation but couldn't find the proper instructions, here are the steps to follow:

In the pool for which you want to add a spare, click the settings wheel and select Add Vdevs,
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On the next page you have to pull down the "ADD VDEV" menu to select "Hot Spare"

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You then chose a drive of the same size as the VDev you want to support/protect and add it to the "Spare VDev" section
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Thank you Sir.. simple.. succinct infos.. made life easy..