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April 8th, 2014 06:00
Degraded Physical Disk Channel
I hope someone can help me with this problem. Our Dell Powervault disk storage manager has indicated a problem with our SANS array, and this is one it says I myself cannot fix. Specifically it states:
- You must contact your technical support representative to correct this failure. DO NOT attempt to fix this problem yourself.
We are running a Dell PowerVault MD3000i along with two additional MD1000 units.
Currently we do not have a Dell support contract and I am hoping there is some way to correct this problem. The recovery guru identifies the issue as:
"A physical disk channel status was set to Degraded either because of excessive I/O errors, or at the instruction of a technical support representative for diagnostic or other support reasons. It is important to correct this failure as soon as possible. The physical disks are still operational, but a level of path redundancy has been lost. If the other channel to the physical disks fails, then the physical disks themselves may fail. The Recovery Guru Details area provides specific information you will need as you follow the Recovery Steps."
There is no Loss of Path Redundancy indicated, the details in the guru are:
Storage array: SAN-1
Degraded physical disk channels: 0, 1
Is there anything I can do to further investigate this problem, or to correct it? I am trying to determine where it is seeing the "excessive I/O errors" to narrow down my possible causes. Any help is greatly appreciated. Until this point the storage manager has been a great tool and has always provided me a clear identification of the problem and steps to correct.
Thanks in advance for any help or direction.
Ivan
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April 8th, 2014 08:00
Hello Ivan,
Can I get you to gather a support bundle from the unit so that I can review the logs to see what is going on with that channel. I will send you a private message with a link to where you can upload the log to.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
DELL-Sam L
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April 8th, 2014 08:00
Hello Ivan,
I tried to sed you an email from your address listed in your profile but it comes back to me saying that it is not correct. can you check it to make sure that your email address is correct.
Thanks
Sam
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April 8th, 2014 11:00
Hi Sam,
Thanks for the response. I just checked my profile on my Dell account. Is that not the same for this forum? In any case try <ADMIN NOTE: Email id removed per privacy policy>.
Ivan
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April 14th, 2014 07:00
Hello Ivan,
Thanks for the log as it helps narrow down your issue. I have reviewed the log and all looks good as far as the drives are all optimal. One thing that I did notice is that the MD’s units are all at the latest firmware but the drives themself are not & that is the reason that you are getting the error message. Now we can reset the error counter and that will clear the error from the system but you will also need to get a window when you can upgrade the hard drives firmware as well. Here is the two commands that will need to be run from SMCLI.
smcli -n "arrayname" -c "clear allphysicalDiskChannel stats;"
smcli -n "arrayname" -c "set physicalDiskChannel [1] status=optimal;"
Here is the link to the hard drive firmware so that you can update the drives as well. http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails/Product/powervault-md3000i?driverId=9MWRG&osCode=WNET&fileId=3352664197&languageCode=en&categoryId=EH
Please let us know if you have any other questions.