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...

Read More
HP MSA P2000 – Replacing a Failed Disk
Nov17

HP MSA P2000 – Replacing a Failed Disk

KB ID 000087 Problem If you have a disk fail in one of the volumes on your HP MSA SAN, this is the process for replacing it. Note: Normal RAID rules apply, if you replace a 146GB drive with a 300GB drive, it will add it fine, but you will lose the difference. Solution 1. Remove the failed drive, and replace with the new one. 2. Connect to the web cosole of the storage array. Select the MSA > Provisioning > Manage Global spares....

Read More