HP LeftHand SAN Solutions Support Document - Service Notes - VSA 7.0 for VMware ESX

After Reboot, Lower Capacity Disk Status Is Shown As On And Secured In

An IBM x3650 That Has Higher Capacity Disks (6740)

Scenario

You insert a lower capacity disk in an IBM x3650 with higher capacity disks

and reboot it. In the Console, the physical drive status appears as Active, and

RAID status appears as Degraded. You will not be able to power off the lower

capacity disk to replace it with the higher capacity one.

Note

Adding lower capacity disks to storage modules with higher capacity disks is

not supported.

Workaround

1 Using the Console, power off the IBM x3650.

2 Replace lower capacity disk with a new, higher capacity disk.

3 Power on the IBM x3650.

When the IBM x3650 comes up, the RAID status appears as Rebuilding

and the physical drive status appears as Active.

In An NSM 200 With RAID 10, 3ware Controller May Not Bring New Disk

Online Without A Reboot (7629)

Scenario

If you replace a disk, there is a chance that the replacement disk will not be

recognized by the 3ware controller until you reboot the NSM 200.

Workaround

Reboot the NSM 200.