Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] replacing a failed hard drive with PERC HBA mode

2017-08-10 Thread Tim Mooney 
In regard to: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] replacing a failed hard drive with PERC...:

> Does the H710 support HBA mode? I thought it wasn't until the PERC9 series
> that HBA mode was supported.

I'm fairly certain it's in HBA mode.  It reports "User Mode" in the iDRAC
7 web interface, when looking at the controller view.

> If that's the case, you probably just have to create a RAID0 virtual disk
> with the single drive. I guess you could confirm by seeing if you have any
> other virtual disks listed in the storage section of the iDRAC.

There are 3 other vdisks listed in the "Storage->Virtual Disks" section
of the iDRAC7 interface: vdisk0, vdisk2, and vdisk3.  It's vdisk1 that
I'm trying to get to appear.

Scott Kingston's response gave me enough information to confirm that
iDRAC 7 does not support creating a vdisk via that interface, so right
now I'm looking at the remote access options via other tools.

Thanks!

Tim

> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Tim Mooney  wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All!
>>
>> I need to replace a hard drive in a Dell R720 that's running RHEL 6.9.
>> The problem is that the replacement drive shows up as "Ready" in the
>> physical disks area of iDRAC, instead of "Online".  It does not
>> automatically show up as a vdisk in the virtual disks area.
>>
>> The PERC H710 mini is in HBA mode, not RAID mode, so it's not handling
>> the mirroring.  That's being done at the OS level with Linux's mdadm.
>>
>> This hard drive is part of an mdadm RAID1.  The drive failed completely,
>> so mdadm failed each of the partitions out of the individual MD devices.
>> I removed the failed MD components and then forced the OS to forget about
>> /dev/sdb, with
>>
>> # echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/delete
>>
>> I pulled the failed hard drive from the hot-swap bay, installed the Dell
>> replacement drive in the carrier, and inserted the replacement hard drive
>> into the bay.  The drive LED blinked and went green, and iDRAC shows the
>> physical disk as "Ready", instead of "Online", and the replacement is
>> missing completely from the vdisk area.
>>
>> The OS did not auto-detect a hard drive being added to the bus, and even
>> a rescan via
>>
>> # echo '- - -' > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
>>
>> does not trigger it to recognize the replacement drive is there.  I'm
>> guessing that's because I need to do something at the PERC/iDRAC/Lifecycle
>> level to get the drive to switch to "Online" and make it a vdisk.
>>
>> How do I go about doing that?
>>
>> We do not currently have any Dell OS-level RPMs installed, so no omsa or
>> srv-admin or whatever.  After being on this list for a couple of years,
>> my confidence in those tools is extremely limited.
>>
>> It seems like 'megaclisas' might be able to help, but I have been
>> completely unable to find a working link to that tool, after the
>> LSI->Avago->Broadcomm transition.  If anyone has a working link to get
>> it, I would appreciate seeing it.
>>
>> Could 'racadm' via ssh perform the necessary magic to get this drive so
>> that the PERC is presenting it as a disk to the OS?  Is there something
>> easier than that, that also doesn't require a huge mess of questionable
>> Dell RPMs be installed?
>>
>> Any suggestions are much appreciated,
>>
>> Tim
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>> (Voice)
>> Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building  701-231-8541 (Fax)
>> North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
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Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] replacing a failed hard drive with PERC HBA mode

2017-08-10 Thread Artit Jirapatnakul 
Hi,

Does the H710 support HBA mode? I thought it wasn't until the PERC9 series
that HBA mode was supported.

If that's the case, you probably just have to create a RAID0 virtual disk
with the single drive. I guess you could confirm by seeing if you have any
other virtual disks listed in the storage section of the iDRAC.

Art

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Tim Mooney  wrote:

>
> Hi All!
>
> I need to replace a hard drive in a Dell R720 that's running RHEL 6.9.
> The problem is that the replacement drive shows up as "Ready" in the
> physical disks area of iDRAC, instead of "Online".  It does not
> automatically show up as a vdisk in the virtual disks area.
>
> The PERC H710 mini is in HBA mode, not RAID mode, so it's not handling
> the mirroring.  That's being done at the OS level with Linux's mdadm.
>
> This hard drive is part of an mdadm RAID1.  The drive failed completely,
> so mdadm failed each of the partitions out of the individual MD devices.
> I removed the failed MD components and then forced the OS to forget about
> /dev/sdb, with
>
> # echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/delete
>
> I pulled the failed hard drive from the hot-swap bay, installed the Dell
> replacement drive in the carrier, and inserted the replacement hard drive
> into the bay.  The drive LED blinked and went green, and iDRAC shows the
> physical disk as "Ready", instead of "Online", and the replacement is
> missing completely from the vdisk area.
>
> The OS did not auto-detect a hard drive being added to the bus, and even
> a rescan via
>
> # echo '- - -' > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
>
> does not trigger it to recognize the replacement drive is there.  I'm
> guessing that's because I need to do something at the PERC/iDRAC/Lifecycle
> level to get the drive to switch to "Online" and make it a vdisk.
>
> How do I go about doing that?
>
> We do not currently have any Dell OS-level RPMs installed, so no omsa or
> srv-admin or whatever.  After being on this list for a couple of years,
> my confidence in those tools is extremely limited.
>
> It seems like 'megaclisas' might be able to help, but I have been
> completely unable to find a working link to that tool, after the
> LSI->Avago->Broadcomm transition.  If anyone has a working link to get
> it, I would appreciate seeing it.
>
> Could 'racadm' via ssh perform the necessary magic to get this drive so
> that the PERC is presenting it as a disk to the OS?  Is there something
> easier than that, that also doesn't require a huge mess of questionable
> Dell RPMs be installed?
>
> Any suggestions are much appreciated,
>
> Tim
> --
> Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu
> Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure  701-231-1076
> (Voice)
> Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building  701-231-8541 (Fax)
> North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
>
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