Failed disks cannot be able to replace

[ARUP_JYOTI_THAK]

Hi Support

We cannot be able to replace the failed disks.Please find the below logs--

DEVICE       TYPE            DISK         GROUP        STATUS
c1t0d0s2     auto:sliced     rootdisk     rootdg       online
c1t1d0s2     auto:sliced     rootmirr     rootdg       online
c1t2d0s2     auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t3d0s2     auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t4d0s2     auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t5d0s2     auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t8d0s2     auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t9d0s2     auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t10d0s2    auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t11d0s2    auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t12d0s2    auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c1t13d0s2    auto:none       -            -            online invalid
c2t40d0s2    auto:cdsdisk    disk2        ossdg        online
c2t40d1s2    auto:cdsdisk    disk3        ossdg        online
c3t40d0s2    auto:cdsdisk    -            -            online-----------------------------Disks are there
c3t40d1s2    auto:cdsdisk    -            -            online-----------------------------Disks are there
-            -         disk2mirr    ossdg        failed was:c3t40d0s2
-            -         disk3mirr    ossdg        failed was:c3t40d1s2

When using vxdiskadm utilty getting the below error,it is saying that no disk available for replacement--

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Disk group: rootdg

DM NAME         DEVICE       TYPE     PRIVLEN  PUBLEN   STATE

Disk group: ossdg

DM NAME         DEVICE       TYPE     PRIVLEN  PUBLEN   STATE

dm disk2mirr    -            -        -        -        NODEVICE
dm disk3mirr    -            -        -        -        NODEVICE

Select a removed or failed disk [<disk>,list,q,?] disk2mirr
  VxVM  ERROR V-5-2-1985 No devices are available as replacements for disk2mirr.

Select a different disk ? [y,n,q,?] (default: n)

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[Gaurav_S]

Hi,

disks are appearing online without any diskgroup information ... were the disks reinitialized again using vxdisksetup command ?

can u paste below output

# vxdisk -o alldgs list

# modinfo |grep -i vx

# ls -ltr /etc/vx/cbr/bk/*ossdg*/

G

[ARUP_JYOTI_THAK · Accepted solution]

Hi gaurav

thanks for your revert,this issue got resolved by the following command--

Attaching the disks again with -k option.

vxdg -k -g ossdg adddisk disk2mirr=c3t40d0s2

vxdg -k -g ossdg adddisk disk3mirr=c3t40d1s2

regards

Arup

[Gaurav_S]

Hi Arup,

This can happen in older version of vxvm, not sure what version you are on but above state could be a tricky one, reason being disks are appearing online without any diskgroup information .. could be 2 possible states here

1. Diskgroup was force imported when you had 2 disks failed that means DG was imported forcefully with 2 disks available, that is why when your reamaining 2 disks came online, you don't see dg information from them. Probably if you would run a "vxdisk -o alldgs list" you would have got a confirmation if private region on those disks is intact & dg information is stored on them.

2. what you have done is force added disk back to dg using same name which disk had previously (-k switch). Good that disk contained the information of dg & hence was able to add back. This state can also appear if someone accidently reinitialized the disks (after they were available again) & hence private region information is lost. In that case, even if you would add them using -k switch, you may have lost the data

G