topic Re: Faulty Disk on MSA 2000fc in MSA Storage

Faulty Disk on MSA 2000fc

James4095 — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:28:20 GMT

I have a HP Storage Works 2000fc SAN that has an orange light on one of the drives and in the ‘MSA Storage Management Utility’ it says Critical, Virtual Disk Warning.

When the drive is replaced what is the procedure to reinitialised the drive so it can rebuilt the RAID.

It does not rebuild automatically like other servers.

Thanks.

Re: Faulty Disk on MSA 2000fc

Johan Guldmyr — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:40:41 GMT

Are you wondering how to start the rebuild?

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Disk-Array/MSA-2000-SA-Drive-Replacement/td-p/4509318

Re: Faulty Disk on MSA 2000fc

James4095 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:11:09 GMT

Thanks very much that has fixed it.

These additional notes might help.

The way to rebuild the array is to do the following:

Log into the HP MSA Storage Management Utility.
Click on Manage.
Under Vdisk Configuration, Click on Add Vdisk spares
The new disk will be green with a tick box available on it. Tick the box and click on “Add Vdisk Spares”
The Raid will reconstruct.

Re: Faulty Disk on MSA 2000fc

Torsten. — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:38:03 GMT

You may also configure "enable dynamic spares", so a new disk becomes a spare automatically.