Greg, I'll add a decidedly low-tech suggestion. As I put drives in my experimental Supermicro box, currently running SmartOS and other OS's under ESXi, I take photos of the drive label and add them to a note in Evernote, annotated with the drive’s X/Y coordinates in the chassis. At intervals, I add a device summary that includes the serial numbers, e. g. the output of "iostat -En".
Obviously, this is not convenient at scale. Best, Chris > Am 12.04.2014 um 06:52 schrieb "Greg Zartman" > <[email protected]>: > > Question: What is the best way for me to know where a failed drive is > located in the chassis? Perhaps the backplate/raid card are smart enough to > light up the red error LED when a drive fails, but I'm not certain of this. ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
