Drives have been replaced in a failed logical drive, but the logical drive has not yet been initialized. The Recovery Guru Details area provides specific information you will need as you follow the recovery steps.
1 | Note: If you have flashcopy logical drives associated with the affected array, these flashcopy logical drives will no longer be valid.
Delete all flashcopy logical drives associated with the affected array. |
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2 | Select the affected array and then select Advanced >> Recovery >> Initialize >> Array.
Result: The logical drives associated with the affected array in the Logical View of the Subsystem Management Window display an Operation in Progress Note: To monitor initialization progress, select the logical drive. Then, select Logical Drive >> Properties. Note that once the operation in progress has completed, the progress bar is no longer displayed in the Properties dialog. |
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3 | If selecting Advanced >> Recovery >> Initialize >> Array does not start initialization, do the following:
Note: Make sure you save this procedure by selecting Save As because once you perform step 4 and the failure is fixed, you will not be able to access the information in steps 5 - 7 from the Recovery Guru. |
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4 | Click the Recheck button to rerun the Recovery Guru. The failure should no longer appear in the Summary area. If the failure appears again, contact your technical support representative. Otherwise, go to step 5. | ||||||||
5 | Add the re-initialized logical drives back to the operating system. You may need to reboot the operating system to see the logical drives.
Note: Do not start I/O to these logical drives until after you restore from backup. |
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6 | Restore the data for the re-initialized logical drives from backup. | ||||||||
7 | If desired, create any flashcopies that you deleted in Step 1. |