HP MSA P2000 (G3) Error – ‘Unwritable write-back cache data exists for a volume’
Nov17

HP MSA P2000 (G3) Error – ‘Unwritable write-back cache data exists for a volume’

KB ID 0000817  Problem Seen on a G3 P2000 SAN, the client had also had an MSA70 shelf, which contained a failed array. I was removing the MSA and after the job, this error was getting logged. Unwritable write-back cache data exists for a volume (vdisk: unknown name, volume: unknown name, SN {Serial Number} it comprises {number}% of cache. Solution Essentially, there was data in the cache that needed writing to the array/vdisk, when it...

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HP MSA P2000 – ‘The Disk May Contain Stale Metadata’
Nov17

HP MSA P2000 – ‘The Disk May Contain Stale Metadata’

KB ID 0000874 Problem The call came in this morning, a client had replaced a failed drive in his SAN, (an MSA P2000 2324sa). He was asking if there was anything he needed to do. I said “Just mark it as a global spare and that should be it”. He rang back some time later to say he was still having problems. When I dialled on I could see his ‘new’ drive was marked as LEFTOVR and was flagged with the following...

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