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Identifying the specific disk for a disk failure in VMware vSAN

How To


Summary

This article supplements VMware documentation to help you identify the specific disk that failed when working with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions.

Objective

You experience a disk failure on a VMware vSAN system with deduplication enabled, and you need to identify the specific disk that failed.

Steps


In addition, to gather information to identify the specific disk when working with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, run the following commands as described in How do you identify the physical disk (LSI raid controller) in a VMware vSAN environment?:

/opt/lsi/storcli/storcli /c0 show all

vdq -Hi

Example

root@testesxi01:~] /opt/lsi/storcli/storcli /c0 show all

Generating detailed summary of the adapter, it may take a while to complete.

CLI Version = 007.0916.0000.0000 Apr 05, 2019

Operating system = VMkernel 6.7.0

Controller = 0

Status = Success

Description = None

Basics :

======

Controller = 0

Model = AVAGO MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i

Serial Number = SK74068154

Current Controller Date/Time = 08/03/2021, 21:14:31

Current System Date/time = 08/03/2021, 21:16:16

SAS Address = 500605b00d7c3780

PCI Address = 00:3b:00:00

Mfg Date = 10/04/17

Rework Date = 00/00/00

Revision No = 14C

Version :

=======

CPLD Version = 26515-01A

Bios Version = 6.36.00.2_4.19.08.00_0x06180202

Driver Name = lsi-mr3

Driver Version = 7.708.07.00

Drive Groups = 8

PD LIST :

=======

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

EID:Slt DID State DG       Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model                     Sp Type

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8:0      17 Onln   0 931.000 GB SATA HDD N   N  512B ST1000NM0033-9ZM173       U  -

8:1      20 Onln   0 931.000 GB SATA HDD N   N  512B ST1000NM0033-9ZM173       U  -

8:2      23 Onln   1 893.750 GB SATA SSD Y   N  512B Micron_5100_MTFDDAK960TCC U  -

8:3      24 Onln   7   3.492 TB SATA SSD Y   N  512B Micron_5200_MTFDDAK3T8TDD U  -

8:4      21 Onln   6   3.492 TB SATA SSD Y   N  512B Micron_5100_MTFDDAK3T8TCB U  -

8:5      19 Onln   2   3.492 TB SATA SSD Y   N  512B Micron_5100_MTFDDAK3T8TCB U  -

8:6      18 Onln   3 893.750 GB SATA SSD Y   N  512B Micron_5100_MTFDDAK960TCC U  -

8:8      37 Onln   4   3.492 TB SATA SSD Y   N  512B Micron_5100_MTFDDAK3T8TCB U  -

8:9      35 Onln   5   3.492 TB SATA SSD Y   N  512B Micron_5100_MTFDDAK3T8TCB U  -

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NOTE: You might see a disk from a particular slot is missing.  In the example in this article, the output 8:7 is missing.  Also, under State DG, you might see output different than Onln.

EID=Enclosure Device ID|Slt=Slot No.|DID=Device ID|DG=DriveGroup

DHS=Dedicated Hot Spare|UGood=Unconfigured Good|GHS=Global Hotspare

UBad=Unconfigured Bad|Onln=Online|Offln=Offline|Intf=Interface

Med=Media Type|SED=Self Encryptive Drive|PI=Protection Info

SeSz=Sector Size|Sp=Spun|U=Up|D=Down|T=Transition|F=Foreign

UGUnsp=Unsupported|UGShld=UnConfigured shielded|HSPShld=Hotspare shielded

CFShld=Configured shielded|Cpybck=CopyBack|CBShld=Copyback Shielded

UBUnsp=UBad Unsupported

[root@testesxi01:~] vdq -Hi

Mappings:

   DiskMapping[0]:

           SSD:  naa.600605b00d7c3780271b2105daa5b94b

            MD:  naa.600605b00d7c3780271b2109dae70c9f

            MD:  naa.600605b00d7c3780286420e2a7d24541

            MD:  5287471d-393d-3c3b-ca29-b278d9d847e7

   DiskMapping[2]:

           SSD:  naa.600605b00d7c3780271b2108dad0eb83

            MD:  naa.600605b00d7c37802806e47f07478b34

            MD:  naa.600605b00d7c3780271b2107dac5aa08

            MD:  naa.600605b00d7c3780271b210adaf25719

Document Location

Worldwide


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Document Information

More support for:
VMware Solutions

Software version:
All Versions

Document number:
6486887

Modified date:
01 October 2021

UID

ibm16486887

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