Alright, obviously, this is what you have to do. I’ve now assigned all spare disks to one head and have created a new aggregate (easier to remove again then and chances that the filer panics again due to multi disk failures on aggr0 are lower) and have filled it up with a volume to 99.99% and am now running the following command:
*> hammer -f -1 /vol/hammervol/test.hammer 1048576
This is filling the volume rather quickly, CPU is on 99% almost all the time:
*> sysstat -x 1 CPU NFS CIFS HTTP Total Net kB/s Disk kB/s Tape kB/s Cache Cache CP CP Disk OTHER FCP iSCSI FCP kB/s iSCSI kB/s in out read write read write age hit time ty util in out in out 99% 0 0 0 85 0 1 12 69632 0 0 24s 100% 100% :f 33% 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 99% 0 0 0 0 1 0 1960 83144 0 0 24s 100% 82% Ff 42% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 99% 0 0 0 8 0 0 140 65632 0 0 24s 100% 100% :v 35% 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 99% 0 0 0 0 0 0 3516 72696 0 0 24s 100% 79% Ff 38% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Will have that running for a while and monitor the logst o see if any more disks are starting to fail.
Best,
Alexander Griesser Head of Systems Operations
ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH
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Von: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] Im Auftrag von Alexander Griesser Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 14:31 An: Josef Kropf josef.kropf@gmail.com; 'Douglas Siggins' siggins@gmail.com Cc: toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: AW: AW: How to verify the health of all disks?
Do I get this right, that I have to add all disks to the aggregate in order to be able to test them? Or create a new aggregate with a new volume and have it hammer on this volume, right?
Alexander Griesser Head of Systems Operations
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Von: Josef Kropf [mailto:josef.kropf@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 14:17 An: 'Douglas Siggins' <siggins@gmail.commailto:siggins@gmail.com>; Alexander Griesser <AGriesser@anexia-it.commailto:AGriesser@anexia-it.com> Cc: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: AW: AW: How to verify the health of all disks?
Hammer stresses the whole box to 100%
http://rajeev.name/2008/09/15/ontap-73-hammer/
Von: Douglas Siggins [mailto:siggins@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 13:27 An: Alexander Griesser Cc: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net; Josef Kropf Betreff: Re: AW: How to verify the health of all disks?
I've found the tool called hammer also quite effective at shaking out bad disks. Run it for 3 days full bore. On Nov 11, 2015 6:30 AM, "Alexander Griesser" <AGriesser@anexia-it.commailto:AGriesser@anexia-it.com> wrote: Yes, they’re properly assigned.
Alexander Griesser Head of Systems Operations
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Von: toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] Im Auftrag von Josef Kropf Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 11:56 An: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: AW: How to verify the health of all disks?
Did you assign the disk to the storage?
Issue a „disk show“ just 2 be shure…
Von: toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] Im Auftrag von Alexander Griesser Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 11:43 An: andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.commailto:andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com; toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: AW: How to verify the health of all disks?
Hi,
the disks which are showing 4321 as revision won’t update, all other disks got updated perfectly fine. I’ve upgraded the HA pair to 8.1.4P9 (which is the latest support on this platform, AFAIK). Any idea how I can force the disk firmware update on those disks? Maybe in maintenance mode?
Alexander Griesser Head of Systems Operations
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Von: andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.commailto:andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com [mailto:andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 11:41 An: Alexander Griesser <AGriesser@anexia-it.commailto:AGriesser@anexia-it.com>; toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: RE: How to verify the health of all disks?
You need to update drive firmware before continuing (probably in conjunction with DOT upgrade). See http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=853138.
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From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Alexander Griesser Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:19 AM To: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Subject: How to verify the health of all disks?
Hi Toasters,
I had a pretty stunning experience on a customer’s used filer installation yesterday, long story short: FSA2040 with 1xDS4243 24x1TB SATA disks, had to reinitialize the whole system because controller and shelves have been procured from different sources, so there was no root volume, etc. After I figured the disk reassignment out and have wiped both filers, they both booted up with a 3 disk aggr0 raid_dp and I could start to work on it.
I then added a bunch of disks to filer #1 and continued with the configuration, until I found out, that some of the disks would not allow the firmware to be updated. The disks in question look like this:
*> disk_list DISK CHAN VENDOR PRODUCT ID REV SERIAL# HW (BLOCKS BPS) DQ ------------ ----- -------- ---------------- ---- -------------------- -- -------------- -- 0d.11.2 SA:A NETAPP X302_WVULC01TSSM 4321 WD-WCAW30821984 ff 1953525168 512 N
Working disks look like this:
*> disk_list DISK CHAN VENDOR PRODUCT ID REV SERIAL# HW (BLOCKS BPS) DQ ------------ ----- -------- ---------------- ---- -------------------- -- -------------- -- 0d.11.0 SA:A NETAPP X302_WVULC01TSSM NA02 WD-WCAW31217461 ff 1953525168 512 N
I’ve googled a bit and found out that disks showing up with REV „4321“ need to be replaced, there seems to have been a series of disks in the past with this error, so what I did was I pulled one of those disks out of the filer and replaced it with another one. The system immediately started to reconstruct the now missing filesystem disk from the spare disk, when the log started to fill up about block errors on other disks during reconstruction, then about 10 minutes later, a double reconstruct was running and about 30 minutes later, the filer paniced due to multi disk failure and that’s where I ended up then.
So since there was no data on the filer, I wiped it again and am now back up and running with 3 disks in aggr0 and I’m currently replacing one of the „4321“ disks with another one:
*> disk replace start 0d.11.2 0d.11.3 aggr status -r Aggregate aggr0 (online, raid_dp) (block checksums) Plex /aggr0/plex0 (online, normal, active) RAID group /aggr0/plex0/rg0 (normal, block checksums)
RAID Disk Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type RPM Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks) --------- ------ ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------- -------------- dparity 0d.11.0 0d 11 0 SA:A - BSAS 7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816 parity 0d.11.1 0d 11 1 SA:A - BSAS 7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816 data 0d.11.2 0d 11 2 SA:A - BSAS 7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816 (replacing, copy in progress) -> copy 0d.11.3 0d 11 3 SA:A - BSAS 7200 847555/1735794176 847884/1736466816 (copy 0% completed)
The question now is: since the spare disks were all properly zeroed and there were no entries in the logs that would show me block errors on these disks, how can I verify, all my spare disks are really good? I’d love to run an intensive test on all the disks in order to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again when I put the filer in production.
I’m very thankful for any advice in this regard. Is disk maint used for things like that?
*> disk maint list Disk maint tests available Test index: 0 Test Id: ws Test name: Write Same Test Test index: 1 Test Id: ndst Test name: NDST Test Test index: 2 Test Id: endst Test name: Extended NDST Test Test index: 3 Test Id: vt Test name: Verify Test Test index: 4 Test Id: ss Test name: Start Stop Test Test index: 5 Test Id: dt Test name: Data Integrity Test Test index: 6 Test Id: rdt Test name: Read Test Test index: 7 Test Id: pc Test name: Power Cycle Test
Thanks,
Alexander Griesser Head of Systems Operations
ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH
E-Mail: AGriesser@anexia-it.commailto:AGriesser@anexia-it.com Web: http://www.anexia-it.com
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