topic Need help for replace a failed disk to MSA2000 in Disk Enclosures

Need help for replace a failed disk to MSA2000

Aungshuman Paul — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:39:36 GMT

Hi,

Recently one of the disk in MSA2212fc is faulty. After replace the disk we found the disk status is AVAIL but all other disk status is VDISK.
# show disks
ID Serial# Vendor Rev. State Type Size(GB) Rate(Gb/s) SP
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0 3QP08N4C000099091BET SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 300 3.0
1 3QP08FSF000099091639 SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 300 3.0
2 3QP07ZM000009908XVFK SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 300 3.0
3 3QP06ELQ0000990916UU SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 300 3.0
4 3QP08FQ000009908APXK SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 300 3.0
5 3LM5RTR700009909LWL6 SEAGATE 0002 AVAIL SAS 300 3.0
6 3QP08FA70000990916YZ SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 300 3.0
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And I have one vdisk and 4 volume.

Please provide me the action plan / command for add the disk to the existing vdisk. The MSA is not available through web GUI.

Aungshu

Re: Need help for replace a failed disk to MSA2000

Johan Guldmyr — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:53:42 GMT

Hi!

You need to take the new disk and put it as a spare in the vdisk.

CLI reference for the MSA2000 is here:

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02710176/c02710176.pdf

See page 154 for set vdisk-spare
See page 129 for set global-spare

"set vdisk-spare disks 0.5 VD"

More manuals here:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual〈=en&cc=us&docIndexId=64179&taskId=101&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=3687115

Re: Need help for replace a failed disk to MSA2000

Torsten. — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:54:27 GMT

If you don't have dynamic sparing enabled you need to make it a spare disk first.

Re: Need help for replace a failed disk to MSA2000

Aungshuman Paul — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:59:15 GMT

Hello,

What will happen after add the disk as spare? Is it impact on existing volume? ( I have 4 volume). What happened of my data that was available on the failed disk?

Aungshu

Re: Need help for replace a failed disk to MSA2000

Torsten. — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:07:55 GMT

If a disk went bad the system will restore the data on a spare drive. So the logical drive will be OK, but you don't have a spare any longer. With dynamic sparing a new disk will be used as spare if needed, without you need to make a new disk a spare, otherwise it will just sit there doing nothing.