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Neobane
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10 years ago

Replacing/Restoring Failed Drive

Yestarday, I had two drives in my storage san fail.  The san monitor reports that all the physical drives are fine. bash-2.03# vxdisk list | grep AMS AMS_WMS0_0   auto:cdsdisk    remote996006  ...
  • Neobane's avatar
    10 years ago

    Thanks to the help of Shane in Symantec support, we found and resolved the problem.

    #> vxdmpadm listctlr  all

    CTLR-NAME       ENCLR-TYPE      STATE      ENCLR-NAME
    =====================================================
    c1              Disk            ENABLED      Disk
    c8              AMS_WMS         ENABLED      AMS_WMS012
    c6              AMS_WMS         DISABLED     AMS_WMS012
    c8              AMS_WMS         ENABLED      AMS_WMS0
    c6              AMS_WMS         DISABLED     AMS_WMS0
    c8              AMS_WMS         ENABLED      AMS_WMS01
    c6              AMS_WMS         DISABLED     AMS_WMS01

    c8              AMS_WMS         ENABLED      AMS_WMS0123
    c6              AMS_WMS         DISABLED     AMS_WMS0123
    c8              GENESIS         ENABLED      GENESIS0

     

    The c8 was disabled because the Fiber port was bad.  After we replaced the port, we ran:

    #> vxdctl enable

    This rescanned everything and brought the c8 controller back online.  From there, we just had to unmount the other filesystems that were on the device, export the entire disk group, then reimport them.

    We did have to fix the plex as well, but as far as others searching for possible solutions to similar problems, this will hopefully get them a long way towards a fast fix.