OK, so here's what I've seen with this. First it will run a Smartpools job. After that, it will run a FlexProtect and a FlexProtectLin job to actually fail out the SSDs. In case any one else wonders, because Isilon won't tell you this, apparently.
Now it seems to have kicked off a FlexProtect (after the Smartpools finished), which is nuking the SSDs in the old pool, but not the new one. I think it's interesting that it's doing a FlexProtect, not a FlexProtectLin, but I guess it's probably just going to be dumb about where it puts the metadata that's on those SSDs. Then it'll need to be put back on the remaining SSDs, the next set will be processed, the whole thing repeats, somewhere in there it fails out the bad SAS drive, and then perhaps it'll run the multiscan to rebalance the tiers. Yay.
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October 20th, 2015 07:00
OK, so here's what I've seen with this. First it will run a Smartpools job. After that, it will run a FlexProtect and a FlexProtectLin job to actually fail out the SSDs. In case any one else wonders, because Isilon won't tell you this, apparently.
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October 19th, 2015 01:00
It ain't over till the fat lady sings...
The SmartPools job will process the youngest LINs towards the end, expect that's where and when the SSD data gets migrated.
-- Peter
carlilek
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October 19th, 2015 05:00
Now it seems to have kicked off a FlexProtect (after the Smartpools finished), which is nuking the SSDs in the old pool, but not the new one. I think it's interesting that it's doing a FlexProtect, not a FlexProtectLin, but I guess it's probably just going to be dumb about where it puts the metadata that's on those SSDs. Then it'll need to be put back on the remaining SSDs, the next set will be processed, the whole thing repeats, somewhere in there it fails out the bad SAS drive, and then perhaps it'll run the multiscan to rebalance the tiers. Yay.
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October 20th, 2015 20:00
But did you have to smartfail and re-add the SSDs *manually*?
And you mentioned a bad SAS drive, which might have complicated things...