Most of the time we are in the situation to replace the faulty disk depends on the Volume manager which we are using. In this post we are going to discussing about the method of procedure to replace the faulty disk in SVM control with using "metareplace" command.
Please refer VxVM faulty disk replacement
High Level Plan :
- Identify the faulty disk
- Deleting the Meta database
- Replacing the faulty disk
- Copying the Volume Table of Content (VTOC) to New disk
- Creating Meta database
- Executing "Metareplace" command to replace the disk from SVM.
- Checking the status of SVM
root@unixrock# grep md_mirror /var/adm/messages
Mar11 05:55:32 unixrock md_mirror:[kern.warning]:md:d20:/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 needs maintenance
Mar11 05:55:32 unixrock md_mirror:[kern.warning]:md:d21:/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s1 needs maintenance
Mar11 05:55:32 unixrock md_mirror:[kern.warning]:md:d25:/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s5 needs maintenance
Mar11 05:55:35 unixrock md_mirror:[kern.warning]:md:d24:/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4 needs maintenance
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# echo|formatWe have identified our faulty disk (c1t1d0) and also we can see the metadevice status as maintenance.
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0 DEFAULT cyl 1304 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0
1. c1t1d0 drive type unknown
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number):
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metastat -c
d1 m 1.0GB d11 d21 (maint)
d11 s 1.0GB c1t0d0s1
d21 s 1.0GB c1t1d0s1 (maint)
d5 m 400MB d15 d25 (maint)
d15 s 400MB c1t0d0s5
d25 s 400MB c1t1d0s5 (maint)
d4 m 494MB d14 d24 (maint)
d14 s 494MB c1t0d0s4
d24 s 494MB c1t1d0s4 (maint)
d0 m 8.0GB d10 d20 (maint)
d10 s 8.0GB c1t0d0s0
d20 s 8.0GB c1t1d0s0 (maint)
root@unixrock#
Well, Let we can check and delete the Meta database with reference to the faulty disk
root@unixrock# metadbNOTE : "W" flag is represent that replica has device write errors.
flags first blk block count
a m p luo 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
W p l 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
W p l 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
W p l 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metadb -d /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metadb
flags first blk block count
a m p luo 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
root@unixrock#
Since faulty disk has completely gone, we can request them to replace the failed disk physically and Once its done we scan the new disk by executing devfsadm command.
root@unixrock# devfsadm -Cc diskYes, We have new disk in placed. Now we ready to copy the VTOC to the new disk
root@unixrock# echo|format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0 DEFAULT cyl 1304 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0
1. c1t1d0 DEFAULT cyl 2086 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number):
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2|fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2Creating the New meta database on new disk.
fmthard: Partition 2 specifies the full disk and is not equal
full size of disk. The full disk capacity is 33511590 sectors.
fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock#Now we are good to replace the disk in SVM level
root@unixrock# metadb -afc3 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s7
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metadb
flags first blk block count
a m p luo 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a p luo 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
a u 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
a u 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
a u 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metastat |grep -i metareplace
Invoke: metareplace d4 c1t1d0s4
Invoke: metareplace d1 c1t1d0s1
Invoke: metareplace d5 c1t1d0s5
Invoke: metareplace d0 c1t1d0s0
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metareplace -e d4 c1t1d0s4
d4: device c1t1d0s4 is enabled
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metareplace -e d1 c1t1d0s1
d1: device c1t1d0s1 is enabled
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metareplace -e d5 c1t1d0s5
d5: device c1t1d0s5 is enabled
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metareplace -e d0 c1t1d0s0
d0: device c1t1d0s0 is enabled
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metastat -cYes, your are done. Once the resyncing is completed, we good to go from here.
d1 m 1.0GB d11 d21 (resync-5%)
d11 s 1.0GB c1t0d0s1
d21 s 1.0GB c1t1d0s1 (resyncing)
d5 m 400MB d15 d25 (resync-10%)
d15 s 400MB c1t0d0s5
d25 s 400MB c1t1d0s5 (resyncing)
d4 m 494MB d14 d24 (resync-3%)
d14 s 494MB c1t0d0s4
d24 s 494MB c1t1d0s4 (resyncing)
d0 m 8.0GB d10 d20 (resync-1%)
d10 s 8.0GB c1t0d0s0
d20 s 8.0GB c1t1d0s0 (resyncing)
root@unixrock#
root@unixrock# metastat -cThanks for reading this post. Please leave your valuable comments and queries, will respond to you at earliest.
d1 m 1.0GB d11 d21
d11 s 1.0GB c1t0d0s1
d21 s 1.0GB c1t1d0s1
d5 m 400MB d15 d25
d15 s 400MB c1t0d0s5
d25 s 400MB c1t1d0s5
d4 m 494MB d14 d24
d14 s 494MB c1t0d0s4
d24 s 494MB c1t1d0s4
d0 m 8.0GB d10 d20
d10 s 8.0GB c1t0d0s0
d20 s 8.0GB c1t1d0s0
root@unixrock#