Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance: Unable to Add a New Spare Drive to a Pool

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Update Date:	2016-05-03
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Solution 2126378.1 : Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance: Unable to Add a New Spare Drive to a Pool

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 Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage System
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PLA-Support>Sun Systems>DISK>ZFS Storage>SN-DK: ZS

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Symptoms

Changes

Cause

Solution

References

Oracle Confidential PARTNER - Available to partners (SUN).
Reason: Modified and change to Partner distribution status
Created from <SR 3-12500406651>

Applies to:

Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System - Version All Versions and later
Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System - Version All Versions and later
Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage System - Version All Versions and later
Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System - Version All Versions and later
Sun ZFS Storage 7120 - Version All Versions and later
7000 Appliance OS (Fishworks)

Symptoms

The spare drive was replaced but not automatically added back into the pool.

The old spare drive ID is still showing the original ID of the failed drive.

This can be seen under the alerts log or under the Problems page:

problem-001 2016-4-9 01:54:11 Major Fault ZFS device'id1,sd@n5000cca05c946674/a' in pool 'pool-0' failed to open.

The drive is shown in an Unavail state in the pool.

Changes

Spare drive transition to a faulted state

Cause

Spare drive replaced but Problem Alert not cleared.

Solution

1) Remove the old spare ID from the pool

2) Attempted to manually add the new spare drive back into the pool - but this error occurred:

# vdev verification failed: use -f to override the following errors:
/dev/dsk/c0t5000CCA03B54C494d0s0 is part of exported or potentially active ZFS pool R10-SATA. Please see zpool(1M).

3) Confirmed that the drive was not in use in both cluster pools: pool-0 and pool-1.

4) Using solaris commands, examined the drive ZFS attributes for its pool ownership and hostname.

This confirmed that the disk had not been reformatted to clear these ZFS attributes that protect the disk ownership.

5) Force added the drive as a spare.

Both Alerts under Maintenance Problems were now cleared.

Oracle Support engineer - The Link to the example of the commands used on the Internal Wiki:

https://stbeehive.oracle.com/teamcollab/wiki/AmberRoadSupport:Unable+to+Add+a+New+Spare+Drive+to+a+Pool

If you cannot access this document engage NAS Storage-TSC for assistance

References

<NOTE:166650.1> - Working Effectively With Oracle Support - Best Practices
<NOTE:1020199.1> - How to Upload Support Files to Oracle Such as Explorer and Crash Dumps

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