topic Manager Processing for VTLs in StoreOnce Backup Storage

Manager Processing for VTLs

hmhill17 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:30:17 GMT

HP StorageWorks D2D4324 - G2. All VTLs are listed as manager processing. We have no idea what that means and can't find it anywhere. Drives will then go to no details available then back to manager processing.

Currently running at 99.2% capacity and all backups are failing. NetBackup can't find the drives or robots.

Unfortunately, the guy who was in charge of these decided to quit so we're running blind right now.

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Re: Manager Processing for VTLs

Ken Krubsack — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:57:22 GMT

That means you may have had an ugly shutdown of the device and it is doing some internal data checking. Did they ever come back for you?

Ken

Re: Manager Processing for VTLs

ALato — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:31:27 GMT

I had the same problem today on a D2D 4009FC: it took 3 hours of "manager processing" and "Load failed" status before the VTLs went back online by themselves.

It seems the system is making some checks: if you try to shutdown while VTLs are down the status remains "Stopping" for a while.

I decided after an hour to power off my D2D with no luck (probably getting all worse...)

So my advice is.... be patient!

I read that 1.2.17 solves a problem of slow VTL startup, I am still on 1.2.13 but I will upgrade soon