Unable to expand the vdisk - An invalid device was specified

David Dimbleby — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:07:46 GMT

Morning.

We have an MSA2312fc with an additional 4 x disk enclosures that's been behaving as expected up until now. Had a failed disk which has been replaced and is being reported as OK. Need to re-expand the Vdisk to use this disk, but each time I attempt to this I get a failure message saying 'Unable to expand the vdisk - An invalid device was specified'.

The Vdisk was/is a 3 drive (300GB SAS) RAID5 set with one volume using the entire available space. To eliminate the replacement disk as the issue, I tried expanding it across one of the other available drives in one of the other enclosures, but I get the same failure message. I've even made sure that all the relevant disk are owned by the same controller but still get the same results.

Any assistance welcome.

Thanks

Re: Unable to expand the vdisk - An invalid device was specified

David Dimbleby — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:45:40 GMT

Spoke to HP - Great guys. As the Vdisk was critical, I just had to add the new/replacement disk as a 'dedicated spare', and it started the rebuild automatically.

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