Monday 2 November 2020

Exadata : Disk Replacement

Operational Activities:


*.Diagnostics & SR Creation

   CellCLI> list celldisk where name='<Cell_Disk>' details

       Disk Status -> Online/Offline  #Both Cases

       Error Count -> more than 0.


   SR Creation

         1. ASR Configure

         2. Manual SR - read Doc ID - 761868.1


Reference :

Sundiag & Other Diagnostics: Oracle Exadata Diagnostic Information required for Disk Failures and some other Hardware issues (Doc ID 761868.1)



*.Drop Faulted Disk

   1.Normal -> Confined offline

          *.Amber LED

          *.Rebalance Initiated

   2.Confined offline -> offline

         *.Blue LED

         *.Ready for Replacement

Reference:

Drop Online Disk: Things to Check in ASM When Replacing an ONLINE disk from Exadata Storage Cell (Doc ID 1326611.1)



*.Disk replacement

    FSE visit and Replacement

Reference:

Replace Procedure: How to Replace a Hard Drive in an Exadata Storage Server (Predictive Failure) (Doc ID 1390836.1)