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Operating Systems AIX IBM FastT600 SAN - RAID 5 Storage Manager Client v08.33.G5.03 - Recovery? Post 302317804 by aix-olympics on Wednesday 20th of May 2009 03:48:48 AM
Old 05-20-2009
PHP IBM FastT600 SAN - RAID 5 Storage Manager Client v08.33.G5.03 - Recovery?

To summarize the problem: The "IBM FastT Storage Manager Client v8" shows that our Disk Farm is arranged into 6 logical drives each in a RAID 5 configuration. This software also shows that 5 of the 6 logical drives (from Disk Farm) are in a error state: "Failed Logical Drive - Drive Failure". However none of the hard disks in the Disk Farm have RED LED lights displayed, so we do not think it is a hardware issue. Out of the 42 hard disks in the disk farm, the software is displaying a Yellow X Icon on 10 of these drives. (See the attached PDF to this post for a picture of the GUI)

I powered down the system on Friday completely by turning of the EXP700's FIRST and then turning off the FastT600. When I turned it back on later in the day, I noticed some hard disks had ORANGE LEDs for about 5 minutes before returning to GREEN. I wonder if the Raid 5 logical drives may have been lost because I powered off the EXP700's first then the FastT600? Is there anything we can do to resolve this? I noticed there is an option in the GUI for "Reviving a failed hard disk" but have not tried it yet, since there are 10 that appear to be errored. What do you advise us to do? Can the GUI be used to fix and recovery the other logical drives? What about the AIX server side?


Here is the model/type/serial information of our hardware:

1. Disk Farm
a. FastT600 Total Storage
Type/Model: 1722-60U
Serial: 23A2442

b. EXP700 Total Storage
Type/Model: 1740-1Ru
Serial: 23D1765

c. EXP700 Total Storage
Type/Model: 1740-1Ru
Serial: 23D2162

2. Storage Manager (Windows 2000 Terminal Server SP4, Contains Software: IBM FastT Storage Manager Client v08.33.G5.03)
IBM xSeries 345
Type/Model: 8670-91X
Serial: KP-YLH70

3. DB/Storage Access Server (AIX Version 5, mounts the Disk Array SAN)
a. IBM pSeries 650
Type/Model: 7038-6M2
Serial: 10-C268F

b. IBM pSeries 650
Type/Model: 7038-6M2
Serial: 10-B80BF

4. Fiber Switches (directly attached to the pSeries 650 and Disk Farm)
a. IBM Fiber Switch 3534F08
Type/Model:3534-F08
Serial: 1317452

b. IBM Fiber Switch 3534F08
Type/Model:3534-F08
Serial: 1317743

Each EXP700 is a storage disk shelf containing 14 disk drives. The FastT600 is the storage head unit which also contains disk drives. The FastT600 is connected to the EXP700 disk shelves via fiber optic cable and provides access to the disks in all three devices. For simplicity, we will call these three devices the Disk Farm from now on. The Disk Farm has a total of 42 physical hard drives.

The storage manager runs the "IBM FastT Storage Manager Client v8" software that is showing the status of our Disk Farm (Attached to this email). It also allows us to control how the Disk Farm groups the physical drives into logical drives for presentation to external servers (such as our DB/Storage Access Servers).

The DB/Storage Access Servers mount the logical drives on the Disk Farm. Some of the logical drives are used for storing DB2 files, others are simple file systems. It is dual-path connected to the Disk Farm via 2 separate IBM Fiber Switches.


- I was not able to attach the PDF with the GUI picture of the Storage Manager Client, and the errpt logs of the AIX servers because these forums dont support pdf.Smilie

Oh well, Any help you can offer us is greatly appreciated!
-Bill
 

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AAC(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    AAC(4)

NAME
aac -- Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device pci device aac device aacp To compile in debugging code: options AAC_DEBUG=N Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): aac_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The aac driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI Ultra2, Ultra160, and Ultra320, SATA and SAS RAID controllers. Access to RAID containers is available via the /dev/aacd? device nodes. The aacp device enables the SCSI pass-thru interface and allows devices connected to the card such as CD-ROMs to be available via the CAM scsi(4) subsystem. Note that not all cards allow this interface to be enabled. The /dev/aac? device nodes provide access to the management interface of the controller. One node exists per installed card. The aliases /dev/afa? and /dev/hpn? exist for compatibility with the Dell and HP versions of management tools, respectively. If the kernel is compiled with the COMPAT_LINUX option, or the aac_linux.ko and linux.ko modules are loaded, the Linux-compatible ioctl(2) interface for the management device will be enabled and will allow Linux-based management applications to control the card. HARDWARE
Controllers supported by the aac driver include: o Adaptec AAC-364 o Adaptec RAID 2045 o Adaptec RAID 2405 o Adaptec RAID 2445 o Adaptec RAID 2805 o Adaptec RAID 3085 o Adaptec RAID 31205 o Adaptec RAID 31605 o Adaptec RAID 5085 o Adaptec RAID 51205 o Adaptec RAID 51245 o Adaptec RAID 51605 o Adaptec RAID 51645 o Adaptec RAID 52445 o Adaptec RAID 5405 o Adaptec RAID 5445 o Adaptec RAID 5805 o Adaptec SAS RAID 3405 o Adaptec SAS RAID 3805 o Adaptec SAS RAID 4000SAS o Adaptec SAS RAID 4005SAS o Adaptec SAS RAID 4800SAS o Adaptec SAS RAID 4805SAS o Adaptec SATA RAID 2020SA ZCR o Adaptec SATA RAID 2025SA ZCR o Adaptec SATA RAID 2026ZCR o Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA o Adaptec SATA RAID 2420SA o Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA o Adaptec SATA RAID 2620SA o Adaptec SATA RAID 2810SA o Adaptec SATA RAID 2820SA o Adaptec SATA RAID 21610SA o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2020ZCR o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2025ZCR o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130SLP o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2230SLP o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2240S o Adaptec SCSI RAID 3230S o Adaptec SCSI RAID 3240S o Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S o Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 o Dell PERC 2/Si o Dell PERC 2/QC o Dell PERC 3/Si o Dell PERC 3/Di o Dell PERC 320/DC o HP ML110 G2 (Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA) o HP NetRAID 4M o IBM ServeRAID 8i o IBM ServeRAID 8k o IBM ServeRAID 8s o ICP RAID ICP5045BL o ICP RAID ICP5085BL o ICP RAID ICP5085SL o ICP RAID ICP5125BR o ICP RAID ICP5125SL o ICP RAID ICP5165BR o ICP RAID ICP5165SL o ICP RAID ICP5445SL o ICP RAID ICP5805BL o ICP RAID ICP5805SL o ICP ICP5085BR SAS RAID o ICP ICP9085LI SAS RAID o ICP ICP9047MA SATA RAID o ICP ICP9067MA SATA RAID o ICP ICP9087MA SATA RAID o ICP ICP9014RO SCSI RAID o ICP ICP9024RO SCSI RAID o Legend S220 o Legend S230 o Sun STK RAID REM o Sun STK RAID EM o SG-XPCIESAS-R-IN o SG-XPCIESAS-R-EX o AOC-USAS-S4i o AOC-USAS-S8i o AOC-USAS-S4iR o AOC-USAS-S8iR o AOC-USAS-S8i-LP o AOC-USAS-S8iR-LP FILES
/dev/aac? aac management interface /dev/aacd? disk/container interface DIAGNOSTICS
Compiling with AAC_DEBUG set to a number between 0 and 3 will enable increasingly verbose debug messages. The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver. These messages are printed on the system console, and are also queued for retrieval by a management application. SEE ALSO
kld(4), linux(4), scsi(4), kldload(8) HISTORY
The aac driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.3. AUTHORS
Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> BUGS
This driver is not compatible with Dell controllers that have version 1.x firmware. The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS POST and driver attach messages. The controller is not actually paused on suspend/resume. BSD
July 10, 2009 BSD
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