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How to restart Puredisk, in the device monitor its showing me offline

16ris10
Level 6

can someone please let me know how to restart(or whatevr) puredisk from offline state appearing in the device monitor - media servers.

its a newly setup puredisk. everything seems to be configured.

its a 5220 Puredisk.

I have other puredisks configured in the environment too, and they don't have this ciommand aswell which is mentioned in the admin guide for Puredisk.

/etc/init.d/puredisk <--- let alone status start stop thing.

/etc/init.d # puredisk start
bash: puredisk: command not found

uname -a
Linux puredisk 2.6.16.60-0.85.1-smp-wan_2.0.4 #7 SMP Tue Nov 22 19:22:45 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/etc/init.d # ls -l pu* vx*
/bin/ls: pu*: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin   2773 Sep  6 10:33 vxatd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2757 Sep  6 10:33 vxatd.orig
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  2399 Sep  6 10:10 vxnm-vxnetd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    32 Sep  6 10:12 vxpbx_exchanged -> /opt/VRTSpbx/bin/vxpbx_exchanged
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  3315 Sep  6 10:10 vxrsyncd.sh
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  2120 Sep  6 10:10 vxvm-boot
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 35299 Sep  6 10:10 vxvm-reconfig
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  3578 Sep  6 10:10 vxvm-recover
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  2112 Sep  6 10:10 vxvm-startvc
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  3103 Sep  6 10:10 vxvm-startvs
 


 


 

 

 

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16ris10
Level 6

am not able to open the GUI, so i thought it was down or something. but then how can am able to putty to the appliance itself. anyway, no idea about puredisk. please someone help..

16ris10
Level 6

howwever on the master server. running that nbdevquery command for puredisk -U

this is what i see.

Disk Pool Name   : puredisk16

Disk Pool Id     :
Disk Type        : PureDisk
Status           : UP
Flag             : Patchwork
Flag             : Visible
Flag             : OpenStorage
Flag             : SingleStorageServer
Flag             : CopyExtents
Flag             : AdminUp
Flag             : InternalUp
Flag             : LifeCycle
Flag             : CapacityMgmt
Flag             : FragmentImages
Flag             : Cpr
Flag             : FT-Transfer
Flag             : OptimizedImage
Raw Size (GB)    : 31456.74
Usable Size (GB) : 31456.74
Num Volumes      : 1
High Watermark   : 98
Low Watermark    : 80
Max IO Streams   : -1
Comment          :
Storage Server   : puredisk16 (UP)

 

all other appliace have a similar output, the only difference, this doesn't have a disk pool id. whereas others have the disk pool id same as the name..

rsakimoto
Level 5

Hi,

Try this commands to stop/start puredisk.

# service puredsik stop

# service puredisk start

# reboot ( to restart puredisk machine)