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MichaelGi
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Can't locate vsan disk with predictive failure

Does anyone know how to locate a bad disk from a vsan perspective?  We have hp dl380 g9 servers and the disk is in predictive failure but I have no way of matching it up with a vsan disk.  Blinking the led is not supported on our p440 controller in JBOD mode so that's not an option.

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perthorn
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Hi Micheal,

This is a pretty annoying problem. The drive LED blinking isn't supported on the P840 and P440  storage controllers in HBA mode. I've heard from HP that they are working on a fix though, but am not sure when it will be released. There is also the "esxcli storage core device physical -d <naa nr>" command for ESXi 6, but I this doesn't work for me either and I assume it is using the same feature of the storage controller that does the LED blinking. I have a work around that I published here:

http://www.perthorn.com/vsan-operations-local-disk-identification/

This is a pretty ugly workaround but it does seem to work for me, try it out and also see if you can verify with ILO.

Cheers

Per

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perthorn
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Hi Micheal,

This is a pretty annoying problem. The drive LED blinking isn't supported on the P840 and P440  storage controllers in HBA mode. I've heard from HP that they are working on a fix though, but am not sure when it will be released. There is also the "esxcli storage core device physical -d <naa nr>" command for ESXi 6, but I this doesn't work for me either and I assume it is using the same feature of the storage controller that does the LED blinking. I have a work around that I published here:

http://www.perthorn.com/vsan-operations-local-disk-identification/

This is a pretty ugly workaround but it does seem to work for me, try it out and also see if you can verify with ILO.

Cheers

Per

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GreatWhiteTec
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You could use hpssacli to see the device in that state. Correlate that info with iLO...

/opt/hp/hpssacli/bin/hpssacli ctrl slot=0 pd all show status

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MichaelGi
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Thanks.  This is a good workaround!

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