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I need some help with a filer, it is running 9.4 and has 24x1.2TB drives.
It was already deployed but has to be wiped and redeployed elsewhere.
Ive console onto both controllers at the same time, rebooted each node, broken the boot process and selected option 4.
The process completes and asks for the management interface to be configured, which I’ve done for both. Completed the cluster configuration. However when I try to create an aggregate I can only assign 7.5TB, there are no other spare drives.
I cam see all 24 drives on the filer, can someone tell me what I’ve missed or how I can resolve this please?
system node run -node Filer01-01 -command sysconfig -r
Aggregate Filer01_01_root (online, raid_dp) (block checksums)
Plex /Filer01_01_root/plex0 (online, normal, active, pool0)
RAID group /Filer01_01_root/plex0/rg0 (normal, block checksums)
RAID Disk Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type RPM Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks)
--------- ------ ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------- --------------
dparity 0a.00.1P2 0a 0 1 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
parity 0a.00.3P2 0a 0 3 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
data 0a.00.5P2 0a 0 5 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
data 0a.00.7P2 0a 0 7 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
data 0a.00.9P2 0a 0 9 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
data 0a.00.11P2 0a 0 11 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
data 0a.00.13P2 0a 0 13 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
data 0a.00.15P2 0a 0 15 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
data 0a.00.17P2 0a 0 17 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
data 0a.00.19P2 0a 0 19 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
Pool1 spare disks (empty)
Pool0 spare disks
RAID Disk Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type RPM Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks)
--------- ------ ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------- --------------
Spare disks for block checksum
spare 0a.00.21P2 0a 0 21 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
spare 0a.00.23P2 0a 0 23 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 55176/113000448 55184/113016832
spare 0a.00.1P1 0a 0 1 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.3P1 0a 0 3 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.5P1 0a 0 5 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.7P1 0a 0 7 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.9P1 0a 0 9 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.11P1 0a 0 11 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.13P1 0a 0 13 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.15P1 0a 0 15 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.17P1 0a 0 17 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.19P1 0a 0 19 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592 (not zeroed)
spare 0a.00.21P1 0a 0 21 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592
spare 0a.00.23P1 0a 0 23 SA:B 0 SAS 10000 1087139/2226462208 1087147/2226478592
Partner disks
RAID Disk Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type RPM Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks)
--------- ------ ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------- --------------
partner 0b.00.4P2 0b 0 4 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.2P2 0b 0 2 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.20P2 0b 0 20 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.10P2 0b 0 10 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.20P1 0b 0 20 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 1087147/2226478592
partner 0b.00.16P2 0b 0 16 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.0P2 0b 0 0 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.18P2 0b 0 18 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.14P2 0b 0 14 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.12P2 0b 0 12 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.8P2 0b 0 8 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.22P1 0b 0 22 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 1087147/2226478592
partner 0b.00.22P2 0b 0 22 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
partner 0b.00.6P2 0b 0 6 SA:A 0 SAS 10000 0/0 55184/113016832
Solved! See The Solution
Do this which will completely wipe all data from the system
1. Boot both controllers to maintenance mode
2. Use the disk commands to work until all disks are unowned
3. Halt both controllers
4. set-defaults
5. saveenv
6. Boot both controllers to the boot menu with > boot_ontap menu
7. At the boot menu choose option 9 on both controllers and wait for prompts on both.
8. Choose 9a on one controller and wait for it to finish.
9. Choose option 9a on the other controller and wait for it to finish. You should see 24 drives now listed as unpartitioned and unowned.
10 if you want to use advanced disk partitioning then choose option 9b on one controller or if you want to use whole disks (I would not with only 24) choose option 9bc. In either case wait for the controller to reboot and start zeroing. You will see a few ...... on the screen.
11. After the first controller starts the zeroing process choose the same option on the second controller.
12. When both are done you should have access to all disks.
Note that ONTAP 9.4 introduced fast zeroing. This means it only takes a few seconds to zero the disks in any case..
You will need to reaquire the license keys.
You should be able to now configure ONTAP
what's the output of:
"storage disk show -partition-ownership "
and sysconfig without the -r
system node run -node * -command sysconfig
Looks like they're all there, but some (looks like 02's) are not owned. (Also, you might want to zero your spares)
How about these:
storage disk show -container-type unassigned
storage aggregate show-spare-disks
Do this which will completely wipe all data from the system
1. Boot both controllers to maintenance mode
2. Use the disk commands to work until all disks are unowned
3. Halt both controllers
4. set-defaults
5. saveenv
6. Boot both controllers to the boot menu with > boot_ontap menu
7. At the boot menu choose option 9 on both controllers and wait for prompts on both.
8. Choose 9a on one controller and wait for it to finish.
9. Choose option 9a on the other controller and wait for it to finish. You should see 24 drives now listed as unpartitioned and unowned.
10 if you want to use advanced disk partitioning then choose option 9b on one controller or if you want to use whole disks (I would not with only 24) choose option 9bc. In either case wait for the controller to reboot and start zeroing. You will see a few ...... on the screen.
11. After the first controller starts the zeroing process choose the same option on the second controller.
12. When both are done you should have access to all disks.
Note that ONTAP 9.4 introduced fast zeroing. This means it only takes a few seconds to zero the disks in any case..
You will need to reaquire the license keys.
You should be able to now configure ONTAP
Ok. After a wipe the controllers should each own 12 drives.
You should see 12 P1 (data) 53GiB partitions for each Controller and 12 P2 (root) 1016GiB partitions for each Controller
Losing 2 for parity and one for spare leaves 9 data partitions for each Controller
Take away wafl overhead and you may be around 7-8TB PORT CONTROLLER.