quick question for HP MSA 2000 storage

[quentyana]

apologies for I am not a storage person and not that familiar w/ msa2000.

how can i re-activate a disk that was mistakenly pulled out from msa 2000 storage without losing any data?

thanks a lot.

[support_s]

System recommended content:

1. HP MSA 2000 (G1) Storage - Firmware Upgrade Using SMU (GUI) and FTP (CLI)

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[sbhat09]

Hello @quentyana,

Which exact model is your MSA? Is that MSA P2000 G3? The even older generation? or Gen 4 2040,/2050/2060 models?

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Srinivas Bhat

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[Shawn_K]

@quentyana 

More information is needed before this question can be answered. My concern is your statement about re-activating a disk without causing data loss.

Need to know which generation of MSA you have and the firmware version on the system.

What is the current state of the raid set(s) on the MSA?

Do you have a backup of the current data?

How long has the disk been removed? During the time the disk has been removed has there been any active host IO to the raid set(s)?

Are you wanting to re-insert the disk to recover the raid set it was removed from? Or are you wanting to re-activate the disk for another reason (please specify reason)?

Do you have Support on this system?

If you can provide some more information we can possibly suggest some steps.

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Cheers,
Shawn