Determining whether a system has hardware-based or software-based disk ownership

You need to know which type of disk ownership your storage system is using to properly administer your hot spare disks. You find this out using the storage show command.

Considerations

Some storage system models can use either software-based or hardware-based disk ownership.

Step

Enter the following command:storage show
If the system is using hardware-based disk ownership, the last line of the output is:SANOWN not enabled. Otherwise, the system is using software-based disk ownership.

Parent topic: Managing disk ownership

Related concepts

How disk ownership works

Related reference

Storage system models that support hardware-based disk ownership or both types