how to find faulty disk location in VMAX?

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I presume that the failed disk would have spared out, due to permanent sparing in VMAX (unless you have explicitly chosen not to use permanent sparing in VMAX).

Hence, you can check for the failed drives using the command symdisk -sid XXXX list -failed

And there is a very high probability that these disks would be spared out due to permanent sparing. This can be verified by issuing the command symdisk -sid XXXX list -isspare and checking for the entries from the command for failed drives.

I'm attaching the screens for your reference.

And if you are asking about the physical location of the failed drives, then there is a pattern for mapping the DAE's to the DA directors and hence the 'C' or 'D' loops.

I presume that the replacement script should have a step to light the LED on the disk for ease of identification. (not sure if this works for spares though).

Hope this helps !!!

-Sreehari

Hi Sreehari,

Thanks for the quick response. Still have one confusion, what location i should understand from the term "INT"?

If, I am not wrong, "ident/symb" both tell us the "director" and "processor slice". Whereas, "TID" spots the disk location on the DAE loop and slot. Then what is the significance of "INT"?

~Harendra