Hard Disk Replacement | VMware EXS4
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Received a warning - one Hard Disk of RAID5 failed. Needed to replace it
Because of Hot-Pluggable, just umount and mount, not need any reboot or shutdown
1: Umount the Hard Disk Failed
2: Mount back a New Hard Disk
3: Wait for time to rebuild RAID done
As had a spare hard disk (SAS) ready for this case mode, processing shorter. In fact, if no spare here, need at least one week for a new hard disk from vendor.
Incident Description
Receive Yellow (Warning)
Created at: Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:02 PM (Delivered after 0 seconds)
Subject: [VMware vCenter - Alarm Host storage status] Health of Storage changed from gray to yellow.
Target: VMS
Previous Status: Gray
New Status: Yellow
Event details:
Health of Storage changed from gray to yellow.
Receive Red (Alert); Hard Disk Replaced; Rebuilding RAID
Created at: Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 5:29 PM (Delivered after 0 seconds)
Subject: [VMware vCenter - Alarm Host storage status] Health of Storage changed from yellow to red.
Target: VMS
Previous Status: Yellow
New Status: Red
Event details:
Health of Storage changed from yellow to red.
Receive Green (Normal); Rebuild Done
Created at: Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:27 PM (Delivered after 0 seconds)
Subject: [VMware vCenter - Alarm Host storage status] Health of Storage changed from red to green.
Target: VMS
Previous Status: Red
New Status: Green
Event details:
Health of Storage changed from red to green.
Appendix
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- VMware ESX4
- Dell PowerEdge R710
- Dell PERC 6/i
Content
Received a warning - one Hard Disk of RAID5 failed. Needed to replace it
Because of Hot-Pluggable, just umount and mount, not need any reboot or shutdown
1: Umount the Hard Disk Failed
2: Mount back a New Hard Disk
3: Wait for time to rebuild RAID done
As had a spare hard disk (SAS) ready for this case mode, processing shorter. In fact, if no spare here, need at least one week for a new hard disk from vendor.
Incident Description
Receive Yellow (Warning)
Created at: Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:02 PM (Delivered after 0 seconds)
Subject: [VMware vCenter - Alarm Host storage status] Health of Storage changed from gray to yellow.
Target: VMS
Previous Status: Gray
New Status: Yellow
Event details:
Health of Storage changed from gray to yellow.
Receive Red (Alert); Hard Disk Replaced; Rebuilding RAID
Created at: Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 5:29 PM (Delivered after 0 seconds)
Subject: [VMware vCenter - Alarm Host storage status] Health of Storage changed from yellow to red.
Target: VMS
Previous Status: Yellow
New Status: Red
Event details:
Health of Storage changed from yellow to red.
Receive Green (Normal); Rebuild Done
Created at: Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:27 PM (Delivered after 0 seconds)
Subject: [VMware vCenter - Alarm Host storage status] Health of Storage changed from red to green.
Target: VMS
Previous Status: Red
New Status: Green
Event details:
Health of Storage changed from red to green.
Appendix
# esxcfg-scsidevs -l | egrep -i 'display name|vendor'
Vendor: TEAC Model: DVD-ROM DV-28SW Revis: R.2A
Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 6/i Revis: 1.22
Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 6/i Revis: 1.22
Vendor: DP Model: BACKPLANE Revis: 1.07
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