Hello,
We have several Smart-1 5150 appliances (in fact just DELL servers) that are already in production. I see that 3 disks for some reason are not recognized by RAID. 6 disks is a default configuration and we bought 3 more. I believe, that they were not added to RAID initially and now we decided to add 3 more disks to have 12x4TB setup.
Question: during RAID expansion will the data be retained or we have to consider backing it up? These devices are log servers and it is crucial to keep all the logs.
[mlm01:0]# raid_diagnostic
Raid status:
VolumeID:0 RaidLevel: RAID-6 NumberOfDisks:12 RaidSize:14901GB State:OPTIMAL Flags:NONE
DiskID:0 DiskNumber:0 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:ONLINE Flags:NONE
DiskID:1 DiskNumber:1 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:ONLINE Flags:NONE
DiskID:2 DiskNumber:2 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:ONLINE Flags:NONE
DiskID:3 DiskNumber:3 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:ONLINE Flags:NONE
DiskID:4 DiskNumber:4 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:ONLINE Flags:NONE
DiskID:5 DiskNumber:5 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:ONLINE Flags:NONE
DiskID:6 DiskNumber:6 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:UNKNOWN Flags:NONE
DiskID:7 DiskNumber:7 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:UNKNOWN Flags:NONE
DiskID:8 DiskNumber:8 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID:DB32 Revision: Size:3725GB State:UNKNOWN Flags:NONE
DiskID:0 DiskNumber:9 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID: Revision: Size:0GB State:MISSING Flags:NONE
DiskID:0 DiskNumber:10 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID: Revision: Size:0GB State:MISSING Flags:NONE
DiskID:0 DiskNumber:11 Vendor:UNKNOWN ProductID: Revision: Size:0GB State:MISSING Flags:NONE
[mlm01:0]# cpstat os -f raidInfo
Volume list
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|Volume id|Volume type|Number of disks|Max LBA|Volume state|Volume flags|Volume size (GB)|
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| 0| 6| 12| 0| 0| 0| 14901|
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Disk list
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|Volume id|Disk id|Disk number|Disk vendor|Disk product id|Disk revision|Disk max LBA|Disk state|Disk flags|Disk sync state|Disk size (GB)|
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| 0| 0| 0|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 0| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 1| 1|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 0| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 2| 2|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 0| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 3| 3|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 0| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 4| 4|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 0| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 5| 5|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 0| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 6| 6|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 254| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 7| 7|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 254| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 8| 8|UNKNOWN |DB32 | | 0| 254| 0| 100| 3725|
| 0| 0| 9|UNKNOWN | | | 0| 1| 0| 100| 0|
| 0| 0| 10|UNKNOWN | | | 0| 1| 0| 100| 0|
| 0| 0| 11|UNKNOWN | | | 0| 1| 0| 100| 0|
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Best regards,
Maria
