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updating napp-it help

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dbrittain

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Hello everyone, I have run into a issue using napp-it.

I am running a very large storage server, the OS is Solaris 11. Recently one of my raidz2's became degraded after losing two 3tb hds (corrupted). I am using version 0.71 Feb 23 build of napp-it and I am unable to remove the drives from the pool to be replaced. I have tried both CLI and the napp-it interface.

I have seen on some release notes that the current version of napp-it has debugged some of the issues regarding drive removal. I was wondering what the best way to update napp-it is and in addition if it is safe to do so with a degraded pool.

In addition, the problem via CLI is that cfgadm | grep does not appear to produce anything. I am using a areca raid card in jbod, and somehow I cant get any of the cfgadm commands to work to unconfigure the drives. I can remove them from the pool using zpool commands however, and it is responsive.
 
you can uodate from 0.7 via menu napp-it update or via the wget installer
if you use wget you can go back via system-snap completly

If you cannot even remove via CLI, it may be that the update won't help
Have you tried a reboot?
 
I have tried a restart, but to no avail. I will update napp-it via CLI and I will report back.
 
I installed the update for nappit without a problem however like you said _Gea it did not solve my problem. The problem I believe stems from when using cfgadm on the drives to unconfigure them. I get the following error:

Hardware specific failure: failed to get state for SCSI bus: No such device or address.

This seems to be the problem. I have update the drivers as best I could for the areca cards (1880). Anyone have any suggestions?
 
dbrittain said:
I installed the update for nappit without a problem however like you said _Gea it did not solve my problem. The problem I believe stems from when using cfgadm on the drives to unconfigure them. I get the following error:

Hardware specific failure: failed to get state for SCSI bus: No such device or address.

This seems to be the problem. I have update the drivers as best I could for the areca cards (1880). Anyone have any suggestions?
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I'm sure, you won*t like it.
Areca 1880 is a bad suggestion for ZFS.

Replace it with a simple and pure LSI HBA like a LSI 9211-8i, LSI 9201-16i
or a cheap rebranded LSI like IBM 1015 that you can reflash to LSI 9211..
 
Fair enough, is it possible to switch cards without many issues?

Thank you for your help.
 
dbrittain said:
Fair enough, is it possible to switch cards without many issues?

Thank you for your help.
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It depends.
If you have simple disks without any Raid information, you can
change controllers and just need to import the pool.

But i suppose, you have build your pool on an Areca Raid.
In this case, you need to copy your files to a new ZFS software-Raid pool
 
Unfortunately I have 2 raidz2 and 1 raidz pools already to capacity (~74TB), so it seems to be a big burden. This is the problem when you are given equipment and have no say on the build initially. Nonetheless, I have some LSI cards, so I might try swap controllers. Once I get another storage server approved to my specs.
 
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