Identifying a broken disk in HP DL360
Since I don’t have great level of experience with HP DL series I was puzzled for a bit when I found out that one of the disk was broken. How I did that? Easy, by gazing at the “Faulty Led” that went steadily on. Not bad but I wanted to be able to grab more detailed information from the console. Since DL360 has built in “HP Smart Array” you won’t be able to squeeze much of the information from the system with ordinary tools i.e. fdisk because the system could see only a logical drive presented by the array controller.
The solution was on the surface – I forwarded my path to www.hp.com downloaded and installed hpacucli RPM and that was it. So now I could do everything I wanted:
# hpacucli ctrl all show
Smart Array 6i in Slot 0 (Embedded)
hpacucli ctrl all show detail
Smart Array 6i in Slot 0 (Embedded)
Bus Interface: PCI
Slot: 0
RAID 6 (ADG) Status: Disabled
Controller Status: OK
Chassis Slot:
Hardware Revision: Rev B
Firmware Version: 2.36
Rebuild Priority: Low
Expand Priority: Low
Surface Scan Delay: 15 secs
Post Prompt Timeout: 0 secs
Cache Board Present: True
Cache Status: OK
Accelerator Ratio: 100% Read / 0% Write
Total Cache Size: 64 MB
No-Battery Write Cache: Disabled
Battery/Capacitor Count: 0
SATA NCQ Supported: False
# hpacucli ctrl slot=0 logicaldrive all show
Smart Array 6i in Slot 0 (Embedded)
array A (Failed)
logicaldrive 1 (136.7 GB, RAID 1, Interim Recovery Mode)
# hpacucli ctrl slot=0 physicaldrive all show
Smart Array 6i in Slot 0 (Embedded)
array A (Failed)
physicaldrive 1:0 (port 1:id 0 , Parallel SCSI, ??? GB, Failed)
physicaldrive 1:1 (port 1:id 1 , Parallel SCSI, 146.8 GB, Predictive Failure)
Sorted.