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Recover MSA60

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Our MSA60 is down due to one disk fail, now I got a new disk and plugg it in to MSA60, i need to reboot the server to make the SAN recover, now i need to ask is how long time will the recover process take? Its a raid 5+0 config and 750GB disks SATA 7200RPM and 12 of those disks in MSA60.

Thx for the answer

David

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Handersson75

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Why that long time? I thought its only 4-6 hours?

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4GB/hour is an often quoted figure although it's probably more like 10GB/h, but it really depends on the amount of I/O from the users as it's a background task. You can change the rebuild priority using the array configuration utility.

You shouldn't have to reboot though, a Smart Array Controller should automatically rebuild, the ACU will give you an indication as to whether it's doing that or not.

By the way, it's DAS, not SAN.

Handersson75

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Ya you are right its DAS, the problem was I powered off the MSA60 and now I powered on the server need to reboot the server to get the DAS working again, otherwise the server can not recognize the DAS.

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Pity you turned the MSA off but that's done now. Powercycling the server shouldn't take more than a few minutes, you shouldn't have to wait for rebuild to complete before you can access the data although it will be a bit slower than normal until rebuilding is complete.

Handersson75

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I hope the rebuilding MSA shouldn´t stop the server from booting, the OS is in the lokal disk, Im just worrying IF it happens.

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Handersson75

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Thx for the fast/detailed answer, I will still try reboot the server tonight and see, if it occur error i will return here. Thx again.