07-06-2015 07:50 AM
Hello,
I have a media server where the disks belonging to a specific enclosure are misbehaving. Their response times are extremely high using vxdmpadm iostat and i can also see from the OS logs that they are faulty.
How can i just disable writes to those disks.
I dont want to to completely disable the enclosure as we have data on it that may be used for restore purposes so we need to keep read access to it.
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07-06-2015 05:10 PM
There is no option to allow only reads from potenially bad luns. You may only disable specific paths or all paths for a lun (vxdmpadm disable path=<pathname>).
Also, you may consider Removing and Replacing the failing Disks
07-06-2015 05:10 PM
There is no option to allow only reads from potenially bad luns. You may only disable specific paths or all paths for a lun (vxdmpadm disable path=<pathname>).
Also, you may consider Removing and Replacing the failing Disks
07-06-2015 10:39 PM
Best you backup the data using a decent backup solution. Keeping information on some faulting disk is not a restoration solution. The day that you'll need the data would probably be the day that those disk finally fail completely.
07-07-2015 12:20 AM
Unmount the filesystem and then mount it as read-only.
If applications and users are supposed to write to the volume/filesystem, be prepared for a flood of complaints and error messages.
Rather log a call with array vendor.
07-07-2015 05:53 AM
hi, Great idea, Mariane.
unfortunately we mix different arrays within the same filesystem.
vxdmpadm listenclosure all
ENCLR_NAME ENCLR_TYPE ENCLR_SNO STATUS ARRAY_TYPE LUN_COUNT FIRMWARE
===================================================================================================
ds5100_ds5300-0 DS5100_DS5300- 600A0B8000479814000000004C5C1B60 CONNECTED A/PF-LSI 10 0730
v_ibm_ds8x001 V_IBM_DS8x00 75WG321 CONNECTED A/A 1 0001
storwizev70000 StorwizeV7000 0200a0438080XX00 CONNECTED A/A 87 0000
ibm_ds8x000 IBM_DS8x00 75VF301 CONNECTED A/A 13 .133
v_ibm_ds8x000 V_IBM_DS8x00 75VF301 CONNECTED A/A 3 0001
the one i wanted to disabled for writes was the DS5K. the others are fine.
thanks.
07-07-2015 05:55 AM
Hello Riaan,
thanks for your good advice.
I will start planning for that from today.