MSA shared storage MSA2312sa

[AdemWOLF]

Hello ALL 

When i use the command show vdisks i saw the number of disk 8, but using the command show disks only 7 are displayed, any explaination.

Thanks

[HPSDMike]

show disks will tell you information about the physical disks installed in the system (size, health, etc). show vdisk tells you about your disk (or RAID) groups. I'm not exactly sure how you can have 8 vdisks with only 7 physical disks. Something isn't adding up. Are you sure you aren't referencing seeing 8 "volumes" when issuing the show volumes command?  

[AdemWOLF]

I mean show vdisk command, show the number of disks is 8 not the number of vdisk is 8

# show disks
Location Serial Number Vendor Rev How Used Type Size
Rate(Gb/s) SP Status
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1.1 3QN2BZRN00009011AGF2 SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 146.8GB
3.0 A OK
1.2 3QN2AYRG00009010RM0Z SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 146.8GB
3.0 A OK
1.3 3QN29G8D00009010QNV3 SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 146.8GB
3.0 A OK
1.4 JFVWNM6C HITACHI A410 VDISK SAS 146.8GB
3.0 A OK
1.5 3QN2A33000009011L3HD SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 146.8GB
3.0 A OK
1.6 3QN2A33F00009011L3EG SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 146.8GB
3.0 A OK
1.7 3QN2BZSJ00009011AE1Z SEAGATE 0004 VDISK SAS 146.8GB
3.0 A OK
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# shw
Error: The command was not recognized.
# show vdisk
Name Size Free Own Pref RAID Disks Spr Chk Status Jobs
Serial Number
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
vdisk1 586.6GB 608.5MB A A RAID10 8 0 64k CRIT
00c0ffd8e3460000e7662f4b00000000
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
#

[HPSDMike · Accepted solution]

You have a failed, or removed, drive. Your vdisk health status is "critical". Time to locate a 146GB drive (or larger) and plug it in the system. Or, ideally, two drives and marking one as a spare.