[176684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Brown)
Tue Dec 9 17:23:09 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:22:59 -0500
From: Michael Brown <michael@supermathie.net>
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To: symack <symack@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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If the serveraid7k cards are LSI and not Adaptec based (I think they are) y=
ou should just be able to plug in a new adapter and import the foreign conf=
iguration.
You do have a good backup, yes?
Switching to write-through has already happened (unless you specified Write=
BackModeEvenWithNoBBU - not the default) - these (LSI) cards =E2=80=8Eby de=
fault only WB when "safe".
If WT, RAID10 much better perf. BUT you just can't migrate from R5 to R10 n=
on-destructively.
- Michael from Kitchener
=C2=A0 Original Message =C2=A0
From: symack
Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 16:04
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read
Server down..... Got to colo at 4:39 and an old IBM X346 node with
Serveraid-7k has failed. Opened it up to find a swollen cache battery that
has bent the card in three different axis. Separated the battery. (i)
Inspect card and plug back in, (ii) reboot, and got (code 2807) Not
functioning....
Return to (i) x3 got same result. Dusted her off and let it sit for a while
plugged in, rebooted to see if I can get her to write-through mode, disks
start spinning. Horay.
Plan of action, (and the reason for my post):
* Can I change from an active (ie, disks with data) raid 5 to raid 10.
There are 4 drives
in the unit, and I have two on the shelf that I can plug in.
* If so, will I have less of performance impact with RAID 10 + write-thru
then RAID 5 + write through
* When the new raid card comes in, can I just plug it in without loosing my
data? I would:
i) RAID 10
ii) Write-thru
iii) Replace card
The new card is probably coming with a bad battery that would put us kind
of in square one. New batteries are 200+ if I can find them. Best case
scenario is move it over to RAID 10+Write-thru, and feel less of the
performance pinch.
Given I can move from RAID 5 to RAID 10 without loosing data. How long to
anticipate downtime for this process? Is there heavy sector re-arranging
happening here? And the same for write-thru, is it done quick?
I'm going to go lay down just for a little white.
Thanks in Advance,
Nick from Toronto.
