HELP! SAN no one can see the drives

[andy_nic]

Help we have a SAN but the drives have triangle and a power symbol, I think its runing a scrub why is this happening and should this stop people from seeing/ connecting the drives? First it was just 1 drive not all 3 have started.

[plexer]

Make/Model of the SAN may help?

Ben

[tmcd35]

If the array is doing an administrative task it may be slowing drive access down enough for windows to time out any access requests.

I had the same problem on my last SAN when one of the drives went. It was so busy rebuilding the array on to one of the hot spares that access was slowed down to a crawl and quiet a very people had access problems.

Then again it was a RAID-50 of 7200rpm SATA drives so I couldn't have expected too much from it

[andy_nic]

its a HP MSA MODEL 2012i, one drive has finished now but the one with all the data is around 1400GB so its gonna take some time

[andy_nic]

now the one that had finished has started again

[andy_nic]

it just keeps going in circles it finishs then restarts the the scrub

[andy_nic]

Fixed it

[irsprint]

Always interested in the fix

[plexer]

Please tell us what you did for future reference.

Thanks.

Ben

[andy_nic]

Restarted the switch, the server could see the SAN but not the network. And according to HP it’s normal for the SAN to always do scrub