Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:42:21 -0400 From: Friedman <friedman@emax.ca> To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL380 G4 Disk status lights Message-ID: <20120425144221.GA69285@emax.ca> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B_ccfHcR%2B=v-n5GffBCH73KOF9TunNJx3e7FVqBkhP--poggw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120425134529.GA68676@emax.ca> <CA%2B_ccfHcR%2B=v-n5GffBCH73KOF9TunNJx3e7FVqBkhP--poggw@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks all for quick reply. Soren wrote: > Hi, > > Could you provide any additional info on how your raidset is configured > (raid levels, disk assignments etc), and what you did in what order (moved > raidset to a new machine - while turned on/off - disks one by one or at the > same time). There had been a pending failure reported in the ILO before this incident. All disks were installed in the same bays in the the new machine before power up. da0 is raid 0 mirrored system disks da1 is 3 raid 5 + spare Rebuild completed successfully (status ok) and machine is operational. > (the following answer assumes you're using my check_smartarray script from > http://soren.klintrup.dk/proliant/ - output is similiar). Correct. Thanks for this. I have it on cron at 5min intervals and although it occasionally reports "unknown state" it is the only info I have on the running system. > A status of rebuilding indicates that the raid controller is rebuilding > mirror/checksum data, during this process you should not perform any > additional changes to the raidset (exceptions can apply), this will return > to a status of "ok" after some time (this can take hours or days depending > on disk sizes and raid levels). See above. Rebuild occurred immediately after initial boot of the new system - there may have been raid activity but no changes to the configuration during the rebuild. > My guess would be that drive bays 0, 1, 2 and 3 is configured in a raid5 > with a hotspare, and the system is currently rebuilding disks 0, 1 and 3, > with disk 2 either being flagged as a new hotspare or tray/bay is broken. > > But for now wait until the rebuild is done to avoid data loss. I assume it used the hotspare for the rebuild and bay 2 is now in need of replacement. The only way to know for sure would be to reboot and enter raid configuration mode which I am trying to avoid. Edwin wrote: > If Bay2 is configured as your hot spare its fine, the red lights are > activity, the green is disk ok in raid. Bay 5 should be confirured > active in the raid, but has no activity, might be a boot disk and all > logs on data disks Thanks for this information. > So basicly how did you configure them to act? See above. Regards, -- Barry Friedman Emax Computer Systems Inc., 480 Tweedsmuir Ave., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9 bfriedman@emax.ca 613-725-3198
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