We have two ML370 G5 servers, each with 4 MSA 60 storage shelves, running Server 2008, with the HP firmware and software for Insight Manager support. These servers have only been on line since the first of December and we have already had 5 failed hard drives. It is true that we are running a lot of drives, but this seems excessive to me. Any thoughts? Thanks!
i think you have lot of drives, so the number of failed drives are not so big, the question if the failed drives was placed on one shelve, or it was random disk failures.
It does sound excessive. You'll want to troubleshoot them a little more the next time you have a failure. Start collecting ADU reports. Run the drive Diagnosis in Insight Diagnostics before you replace the next one and see if it agrees with the failure. Also take a look at the environment, specifically heat and make sure you are operating in the correct temp range.
They are random disk failures. As a matter of fact, I just got an alert this morning that another drive is in the predictive failure mode. I thought maybe it might just be a problem with the HP management agents reporting false failures. This time I ran diagnostics and sure enough, it also showed the drive as failing.
