Need Command to set retire missing physical disks to always

what is the command to set RetireMissingPhysicalDisks policy to Always? I can't seem to find this anywhere. I read this should be set if no hot spare is set.
Im not using hot spares and if a disk dies or i just pull one out and replace it with a larger one I would like it to start rebuilding. Idealy this would work just like a drobo where i can mix and match drives and as i need more space i can purhase
it and just pull a drive out and replace it as needed with larger drives. I like the idea of upgrading storage as needed since I dont have the budget to replace 4 or more drives at once to upgrade storage much like how you would have to do in a RAID
setup. I have my entire storage space disks backup to a drobo anyways so i have a second location for data in case i need to change things up or for some reason two or more drives fail and i loose data.
Also, why does the action center in server 2012 r2 say check storage spaces for issues, yet when i click it and it opens storage pools everything is OK and healthy? I see no issues and I am not sure why it tells me to check for issues.
Thanks!

Hi,
When you run the command get-storagepool, you will get (concrete) storage pools and primordial storage pools (which store physical disks that have yet to be added to a concrete storage pool).
You could refer to the article below to know more about primordial pool:
Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Is it for you? Could be…
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/10/10/windows-server-2012-storage-spaces-is-it-for-you-could-be.aspx
For the second question, please provide the detailed error message in the Action Center to troubleshoot the issue.
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/dev/dm-26p4 27784 30394 20972857+ 5 Extended
/dev/dm-26p5 27784 30394 20972826 83 Linux
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mount: special device /dev/mapper/3600c0ff00012f48791975b5401000000p3 does not exist
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so that one alerts only on OS disks (C and D) and the other only alerts on app disks (E through Z)?

Hi Kevsharp,
Quite confusing after reading your question.
So based on your requirement, What i understand is you need separate alerts for all the drives of the disk is running at low or out of space right ?
For the above just create a simple performance counter monitor and use the same counters as kevin has used in his blog.
Now Target: Use Windows server operating system (This will target all the Windows operating system agents in your SCOM. If the specified discovery MP's are installed).
Set a threshold Below 10% is critical or what ever. You will get the alerts in your console.
Gautam.75801

How to determine physical disk size on solaris

I would like to know whether there is a simple method available for determining physical hard disk sizes on Sun sparc machines. On HP based machines it is simple:
1. run "ioscan -fnC disk" - to find all disk devices and there raw device target address ie /dev/rdsk/c0t2d2
2. run "diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c0t2d2" - display the attributes of the physical disk including size in Kbyes.
This simple process allows me create simple scripts that I can use to automate collation of audit data for a large number of HP machines.
On Sun based machines I've looked at the prtvtoc, format, and devinfo commands and have had no joy. Methods and suggestion will be well appriciated.

ok,
format should say .....eg
type format ..
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80>
if this is not a Sun disk, and you do not get the info,
select the required disk and select partition and then print. This will display what you need.
hope this helps

Setting up a physical standby on a server with a different structure

I am having a few issues trying to set up a physical standby database.
The primary database has a different naming structure than the standby and they are at different sites.
Physical is /var/hpsrp/ctrorp03/oradata/u0x/<DB_NAME>/<DB_UNIQUE_NAME> and standby is /var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u0x/<DB_NAME>/<DB_UNIQUE_NAME>.
I have set db_file_name_convert to '<PRIMARY PATH>', '<STANDBY PATH>' times the number of paths as pairs.
I have created a blank database for standby and having taken a full backup of primary with control file and standby control file.
Now I hit the issues:
The DB incarnation numbers are different.
When I try and do a normal restore e.g. set dbid, restore controlfile; mount; it fails as it is trying to find files in the primary structure and not standby structure.
When I try renaming via set newname or auxname it can't find files to restore I guess due to the incarnation id's.
If I set the incarnation id and try to restore backup it fails as the incarnation id's don't match.
I have tried looking through various forums and the documentation but can't find a solution, probably can't see the wood for the trees though as there is so much.
Has anyone done this type of setup before and can give me some advice?

Thanks for you replies I will try and give more information on both.
srsatya :- Version is 11.2 the controlfile I tried to restore was the one created by the backup not the standby should I be putting the standby in place then before I do the restore? If so just a replacement for the current controlfile by carefully replace at an OS level or by mimicing the controlfile to be restored from autobackup?
CKPT:- Think I tried that but I have been going around in so many circles may have mucked something up.
RMAN> set dbid=2261148474 (The PRIMARY Incarnation number)
executing command: SET DBID
RMAN> alter database mount;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
database mounted
RMAN> run
2> {
3> allocate channel c1 device type disk;
4> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 1 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u01/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/system01.dbf';
5> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 2 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u04/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/sysaux01.dbf';
6> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 3 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u01/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/undotbs01.dbf';
7> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 4 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u01/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/users01.dbf';
8> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 5 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u04/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/IPSCMS01.dbf';
9> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 6 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u04/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/IPSA01.dbf';
10> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 7 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u02/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/DSCR01.dbf';
11> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 8 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u03/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/ISCR01.dbf';
12> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 9 TO '/var/hpsrp/ctrorp03/oradata/u05/SAPDS/CTRSAPDS/DSLR_DEV01.dbf';
13> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 10 TO '/var/hpsrp/ctrorp03/oradata/u05/SAPDS/CTRSAPDS/undotbs02.dbf';
14>
15> RESTORE DATABASE;
16> SWITCH DATAFILE ALL;
17> RECOVER DATABASE;
18> }
allocated channel: c1
channel c1: SID=165 device type=DISK
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
Starting restore at 28-JUN-12
released channel: c1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 06/28/2012 10:21:13
RMAN-06189: current DBID 2261148474 does not match target mounted database (2261834728)
RMAN> exit
Recovery Manager complete.
drfora04 ora_srp3 $ rman
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Jun 28 10:22:16 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
RMAN> connect target /
connected to target database: SAPDS (DBID=2261834728, not open)
RMAN> run
2> {
3> allocate channel c1 device type disk;
4> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 1 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u01/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/system01.dbf';
5> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 2 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u04/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/sysaux01.dbf';
6> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 3 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u01/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/undotbs01.dbf';
7> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 4 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u01/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/users01.dbf';
8> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 5 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u04/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/IPSCMS01.dbf';
9> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 6 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u04/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/IPSA01.dbf';
10> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 7 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u02/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/DSCR01.dbf';
11> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 8 TO '/var/hpsrp/drforp03/oradata/u03/SAPDS/DRFSAPDS/ISCR01.dbf';
12> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 9 TO '/var/hpsrp/ctrorp03/oradata/u05/SAPDS/CTRSAPDS/DSLR_DEV01.dbf';
13> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 10 TO '/var/hpsrp/ctrorp03/oradata/u05/SAPDS/CTRSAPDS/undotbs02.dbf';
14>
15> RESTORE DATABASE;
16> SWITCH DATAFILE ALL;
17> RECOVER DATABASE;
18> }
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: c1
channel c1: SID=165 device type=DISK
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
Starting restore at 28-JUN-12
released channel: c1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 06/28/2012 10:22:26
RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 4 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 3 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 2 found to restore
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 1 found to restore
RMAN>
Edited by: gzmzpz on 28-Jun-2012 04:56

Harddisk suddenly missing in Disk Utility

Hi,
My 2nd hard drive is missing in Disk Utility. It doesn't show in Finder either.
System profile is the only place where I can see the physical drive, but no partitions are displayed. It only shows this:
WDC WD5000KS-00MNB0:
Model: WDC WD5000KS-00MNB0
Revisie: 07.02E07
Serienummer: WD-WCAN**262
Native Command Queuing: Ja
Queue Depth: 32
Externe eenheid: Nee
Whereas for my ROOT drive it says this (including the partition)
WDC WD2500JS-41SGB0:
Capaciteit: 232,89 GB
Model: WDC WD2500JS-41SGB0
Revisie: 20.06C04
Serienummer: WD-WCAN**092
Native Command Queuing: Ja
Queue Depth: 32
Verwisselbare media: Nee
Externe eenheid: Nee
BSD-naam: disk0
Naam nis: "Bay 1"
Mac OS 9-besturingsbestanden: Nee
Type partitie-indeling: GPT (GUID-partitietabel)
S.M.A.R.T.-status: Gecontroleerd
Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
Capaciteit: 211,88 GB
Beschikbaar: 21,48 GB
Beschrijfbaar: Ja
Bestandssysteem: Journaled HFS+
BSD-naam: disk0s2
Activeringspunt: /
Furthermore I cannot shutdown my system with this particular internal drive connected. It hangs after a few seconds. With a hard reset using the power button, I removed the whole 2nd drive bay and after a restart leopard shuts down as normal. Since I cannot see the drive in Disk Utility, how am I able to repair it? Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.
<Edited by Host>

Try Disk Warrior (you'll want to have a system for just maintenance and repairs only); or Drive Genius 2; or TechTool Pro.
The directory and journaling could be so corrupt for various reasons it can't be mounted. Bad sector.
Other than anything not backed up I'd RMA or zero, but I'd also invest in replacing with a new model.

Scripting the Removal of Physical disk from VM

Hi all
I have read this thread here which has helped me so far to create a script for the removal of a VM Hard Disk Drive
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/7f00687c-aa8b-4125-a10c-2730ee473e78/auto-add-remove-physical-disk-from-hyperv-vms?forum=winserverhyperv
So far the script I have knocked up is as follows:
Remove
PS C:\Users\Administrator> remove-vmhardDiskDrive -VMName 2012r2 -ControllerType SCSI -ControllerNumber 0 -ControllerLocation 0
Re-add
PS C:\Users\Administrator> add-vmhardDiskDrive -VMName 2012r2 -ControllerType SCSI -ControllerNumber 0 -ControllerLocation 0
This gets me this in the Hyper-V settings:
I need the script to add the VM Hard Disk drive in with the physical hard disk selected automatically.
Is there a way to do this?
As you can see I am not a powershell expert, im not even an "expert"
Thanks - Dan

All done
The script I used for the removal and then re-adding of the physical disk is as follows:
remove-vmhardDiskDrive-VMName2012r2-ControllerTypeSCSI-ControllerNumber0-ControllerLocation0
Add-VMHardDiskDrive-VMName2012R2-ControllerTypeSCSI-ControllerNumber0-DiskNumber1-Passthru
I then automated it with task scheduler to trigger at 6pm everyday (30 minutes after rotation time)
The ISCSI controller type allows you to run the command whilst the VM is on.

OVM 2.2 -- using physical disk during initial install (virt-install)

I am trying to create a paravirtualized RHEL564bit vm using the virt-install command. Instead of using file based image or tapblk driver based image, i want to use a physical disk.
The physical disk is available to the OVS server and formatted : /dev/sdb1
The disk directive is missing from the virt-install (only file option is present). How do i get the install started?
bin/virt-install paravirt name=demo ram=1024 vcpus=2 bridge=xenbr0 disk path=/dev/sdb1,driver=phy vnc noautoconsole nographics location=http://192.168.229.74/RHEL5764bit
<--disk path is not a valid option> .. I tried using --file but it does not work
*** Basically my vm.cfg's disk directive should look like this :
bootloader = '/usr/bin/pygrub'
disk = ['phy:/dev/sdb,xvda,w!’]
OR .... if you can tell me how to convert a file based image (System.img) to the phy: that would be great.
Note : This is a recommendation for Oracle RAC installation and in addition to the ASM disks being physical, i want the OS disk to be physical as well (and not use any driver or image based file)
Edited by: Abhijit on Nov 30, 2011 8:53 AM

Ok - so confirmed. disk directive is not present .. You can pretty much use the file parameter to specify a physical device path. Infact i tried that, but i missed the = sign.
So the command syntax should look like :
/usr/sbin/virt-install paravirt name=demo2 ram=1024 vcpus=2 bridge=xenbr0 file=/dev/sdb nographics location=http://192.168.229.74/RHEL5764bit

Rac installation on AIX with physical disks.

we have aix 6.1 server (2 lpar/vio) and I am planning to install oracle RAC 11GR2. We do not have storage so need to use available physical disks.
Is it possible to create RAC with phisical disks. We do not have Aix administrator so please Guide me by step by step commands.
We need RAC with ASM.

Hi user;
Please check below notes and links:
IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and Oracle RAC [ID 302806.1]
RAC Assurance Support Team: RAC Starter Kit and Best Practices (AIX) [ID 811293.1]
RAC: Frequently Asked Questions [ID 220970.1]
I also suggest check below googling which has very great notes:
http://www.google.com.tr/search?hl=tr&source=hp&q=RAC+on+AIX&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Regard
Helios

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