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February 13th, 2014 15:00
Used san with faulted/missing hardware
My company refuses to spend money on our pretty large DEV environment. I found us a great deal on a 960 (practically paid us to take it) but it's been one thing after another. It looks like they took a head unit and slapped on new/zeroed drives into a cabinet and threw in cables where it suited them. I couldn't even boot at first until I tore everything apart and put it all back together again.
Now i'm booted and i'm in unisphere but I see several DAE that are faulted/missing from the previous owners. There was also every single lun and pool still showing up in unisphere - albiet faulted.
I was able to clean nearly everything off excepting a faulted hot spare, I think it might have been in use prior to tear down, and of course all the luns that were using it show up in private luns. Because of this I cannot delete the 2 pools that have been configured on the system.
While functional, I KNOW it'll be a constant battle of "no, we don't actually have two pools of XXX TBs that we are just not using..." the entire time we own the thing.
I've asked the place we purchased this from, but they have been clueless at best and i'm not hopeful.
How can I remove these faulted pools/dae?
I have rebooted the MGMT server and the faulted dae are still there, I assume because of the pools and hot spare situation.
Thanks for any help!
kelleg
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February 18th, 2014 07:00
I believe that what's happened is that the array was disconnected while it was in a faulted state (the Pools were faulted with the failed dis) and until the Pool definitions have been deleted from the array, these will continue to show up.
From what I've seen this will probably require an engagement from services - there are engineering procedures that are run by engineering on the SP's to remove the Pool and all associated objects. You should open a service request with EMC. This will require that you provide a set of diagnostic file (spcollects) and request that you need to have the array cleared of all Pools and other objects - essentially, you want to wipe the configuration off the array.
glen