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I will answer the posts more detailed later cause right now I'm away from any computer, writing from mobile device. I like to thank everyone for being involved and helpful Regards Nick

For your information Butuz, the system was factory default. No pools had been configured. I did not pay any attention if it showed 16 drives or 14 drives when I created the pool. I was to excited to get the system up and running.I

I dont know if this could be because of the weird behavior of the LSI adapter. I first tried to remove one disk but in LSI bios all disks were still online and then I remove another one still all 16 disks online and then I finally removed all 16 drives but they were still online in the LSI bios. After I unplugged the power to the 7110 the disk states were reported correctly. Never seen this before. But anyway Chris I like to thank you for your guidance and help.

Thanks Chris I have sent my posts to Brian. This will be interesting.

Sorry it is not possible to generate a support bundle because I cannot start the system, I only get to the grub boot prombt. With other word Open Solaris will not boot. I have already contacted Oracle/Sun support but they will not help me because the distributor does not have a support contract. I know it's pretty stupid on a demo appliance but I guess that they just have missed it. The distributor has another 7110, would it be possible to clone the disk with clonezilla and get the system running again or is this not allowed or is the software linked to the hardware in some way? Please let me know if there is some other way that I can assist in this issue.

Hello everyone. I had this problem with a 7110 during upgrade. Rebooted after upgrade and created a pool. When creating the first zpool system hanged and rebooted. Well I realized that it has wiped the system drives since it is only booting grub. I'm pretty lucky cause this was only a testing hardware (borrowed) so no critical data was lost but the hardware is now pretty useless. But how can this happen? Pretty serious issue I must say. I must also add that I found something odd when troubleshooting and that is with the LSI raid adapter. Even if I had removed all the drives from the 7110 the LSI adapter still reported 16 drives online and ready and I think that is pretty weird. To get rid of the LSI problem I unplugged the power to the 7110 and after that it reported correct number of drives.