RE: Continuing hunt for a replacement SAS hard drive

Pete:

What is the CCIN/Feature code you need? I discovered a customer with the same chassis and he's willing to give up some drives.


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roberto José Etcheverry Romero
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 11:28 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Continuing hunt for a replacement SAS hard drive

Gotcha, Like I said, there's not native i running on that blade. You are presenting a disk from VIOS. and from there it's where you should replace the drive. 6B22 = virtual drive.
You must replace FROM the VIOS otherwise IBM i won't ever notice your replacement. I'm not sure WHY somebody would configure IBM i thru VIOS with
4 disks mirrored at the IBM i level (and only 2 arms for that...)

Best Regards,
Roberto

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It uses a SAS switch. I did get two xSeries drives that appeared to
be a match but the IBM i didn't see them. Right now I see this in
the logs with all the original hardware/drives (when I added the new
xSeries drive, it still showed the same status)


Message ID . . . . . . : CPI1136 Severity . . . . . . . : 99
Message type . . . . . : Information
Date sent . . . . . . : 04/23/18 Time sent . . . . . . :
06:48:18

Message . . . . : Mirrored protection still suspended.
Cause . . . . . : Mirrored protection is still suspended on one or more
disk
units. To determine which disk units have mirrored protection
suspended, use
the Work with Disk Status (WRKDSKSTS) command and press F11 (Display
storage
use). For more detailed information, do the following:

And SST shows this:

Display Disk Configuration Protection

Serial Resource Hot Spare
ASP Unit Number Type Model Name Protection Protection
1 Mirrored
1* YWEB5KZWKZRX 6B22 050 DD004 Unprotected N
1 Y9EJAR7L8YMZ 6B22 050 DD003 Unprotected N
2 Y384SV9UX3VE 6B22 050 DD001 Unprotected N
2 YJA2X8PBPAUR 6B22 050 DD002 Unprotected N


Display Disk Configuration Status

Serial Resource Hot Spare
ASP Unit Number Type Model Name Status Protection
1 Mirrored
1* YWEB5KZWKZRX 6B22 050 DD004 Suspended N
1 Y9EJAR7L8YMZ 6B22 050 DD003 Active N
2 Y384SV9UX3VE 6B22 050 DD001 Active N
2 YJA2X8PBPAUR 6B22 050 DD002 Suspended N

In the process of ordering a different set of drives and I'll see if
those have a better result.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
Twitter - Sys_i_Geek IBM_i_Geek

On 4/21/2018 5:03 PM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

Huh,
A few questions.
1. Does the JS12 connect thru a SAS RAID module or just the SAS
Switch? if it's a SAS Switch and the blade manages the RAID it should work.
2. I believe blades force you to use VIOS, if so, almost any xseries
disk should work. is the mirror done thru software (mirrorios) or
thru the sas raid controller in the JS12?
I've used those blades but connected to FC storages or DS3200 SAS
storages.
Best Regards,
Roberto

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