Repair the storage system – HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software User Manual
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1.
Log in to the management group.
2.
Select the storage system in the navigation window, and review the Details tab information.
If the Storage System Status shows Manager Normal, and the Management Group Manager
shows Normal, then a manager is running and needs to be stopped.
To stop a manager:
1.
Right-click the storage system in the navigation window and select Stop Manager.
When the process completes successfully, the manager is removed from the Status line in the
Storage System box, and Manager changes to No in the Management Group box.
2.
If you stop a manager, the cluster will be left with an even number of managers. To ensure
that the cluster has an odd number of managers, do one of these tasks:
•
Start a manager on another storage system.
•
Add a virtual manager to the management group by right-clicking on the management
group name in the navigation window and selecting Add Virtual Manager.
Repair the storage system
Use the Repair Storage System function to replace a disk and trigger only one resynchronization
of the data.
NOTE:
If there are Network RAID-0 volumes that are offline, the message shown in
is displayed. You must either replicate or delete these volumes before you can proceed.
You see the message shown in in this case.
Figure 114 Warning if volumes are Network RAID-0
Right-click the storage system in the navigation window, and select Repair Storage System. A
“ghost” image takes the place of the storage system in the cluster, with the IP address serving as
a place holder. The storage system moves from the management group to the Available Systems
pool.
If the storage system does not appear in the Available Systems pool, use the Find menu option to
relocate it.
To replace the disk
For the DL320s (NSM 2120), HP LeftHand P4300, HP LeftHand P4500, and HP P4900 G2 see
“Replacing a disk in a hot-swap storage system ” (page 46)
242 Replacing hardware