Replacing a failed disk in storage space ! unable to remove a retired disk

Hi Folks
Not really asking for much !! we are using windows 2012 R2 storage space ; one disk failed
and marked as retired.
today we received replacement disk ; added that to storage pool - fine.
then I repaired all Virtual Disk - process was very quick and went to 100% like a flash.
then I tried to remove faulty disk by using following commands :
$DeadDisk=Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName PhysicalDisk-1
FriendlyName CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage
Size
PhysicalDisk-1 False Lost Communication Warning Retired 185.5
GB
Remove-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks $deaddisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName storagePool
this errored out ; basically saying that the above disk is still in-use !
Any suggestions ? does repair job take some time ? it looked very fast ; when I did get-storagejob ; it showed 100 percent completed .

Hi,
Please reboot the server then set the failed disk to "Retired" and remove the retired physical disk.
You could refer to the thread below to troubleshoot the issue:
Degraded Storage Spaces Storage Pool after single HDD failure
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3a7e2a7d-4ad7-48cc-8165-0d6673e37436/degraded-storage-spaces-storage-pool-after-single-hdd-failure
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PS C:\corefig> Get-PhysicalDisk | ? OperationalStatus -ne OK | fl
ObjectId : {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Pr
oviders_v2\SPACES_PhysicalDisk.ObjectId="{95
42513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:PD:{7e22
245f-0cf6-11e3-b1db-806e6f6e6963}"
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IsPartial : False
LogicalSectorSize : 0
Manufacturer :
MediaType : UnSpecified
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PhysicalLocation :
PhysicalSectorSize : 0
SerialNumber :
Size : 1999575711744
SlotNumber :
SoftwareVersion :
SpindleSpeed : 0
SupportedUsages : {Auto-Select, Manual-Select, Hot Spare,
Retired...}
Usage : Retired
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You can first refer the following step by step third party article and KB:
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Step By Step: How to Replace Faulty Disk In Two-Way Mirrored Storage Tiered Space
http://charbelnemnom.com/2014/09/step-by-step-how-to-replace-faulty-disk-in-two-way-mirrored-storage-tiered-space-storagespaces-ws2012r2/
More information:
Storage Spaces - Designing for Performance
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15200.storage-spaces-designing-for-performance.aspx
Storage Spaces Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831739.aspx
Windows Server Storage Spaces: What is it and why should I use it?
http://curah.microsoft.com/5049/windows-server-2012-r2-storage-spaces-what-is-it-and-why-should-i-use-it
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PhysicalDisk14      False               OK                  Healthy
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+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/..._StorageCmdlets) [Remove-PhysicalDisk], CimE
xception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 51004,Remove-PhysicalDisk
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
Any ideas? Again, all I really need is about 50GB of data off this array so if even there is a way to temporarily mount the volume, pull the data, and start of I'm game. Thanks again for your help!

Hi,
How did you remove that disk and return the disk?
Please follow this article to operate for test:
Storage Spaces in Windows 8 and 8.1
https://www.winhelp.us/storage-spaces-in-windows-8.html
Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
In addition, verify the account to upload the picture or upload the picture to the OneDrive and share the link.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

Unable to repair degraded Virtual disks in Storage Spaces 2012R2

Hi all,
I have an anoying problem that I cannot seems to find a solution for.
I have a 2 node Failover Cluster with CSV-volumes consisting of 2 HP DL360 servers with 2 LSI 9300-16e HBAs each, connected to 3 Supermicro JBOD-cases with a total of 84 disks. With Storage spaces I have made 1 Pool with 6 virtual disks and 3 of these disks
are Degraded. However, when I look at the physical disks they are all fine and healthy, if I try to repair the disks it finishes without any error messages but the disk is still Degraded.
OS = Windows Server 2012R2
Anyone have an idea?
Thanks!

Hello Partner,
Thanks so much for contacting Microsoft. This is Sophia who will help you with this issue.
From your description, I learnt that the issue you are experiencing is that you failed to repair degraded Virtual disks in Storage Spaces 2012 R2. Please let me
know if I misunderstand anything.
First of all, I would like to suggest you install the following hotfix to upgrade storage related files to the newest edition. After that, please test how the issue
goes.
==========================================
Package: This is to upgrade NTFS.sys.
KB Article Number(s): 2996802
Language: All (Global)
Platform: x64
Location: (http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows%208.1/Windows%20Server%202012%20R2/sp1/Fix524134/9600/free/480025_intl_x64_zip.exe)
Package: This is to upgrade Msiscsi.sys
KB Article Number(s): 3000123
Language: All (Global)
Platform: x64
Location: (http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows%208.1/Windows%20Server%202012%20R2/sp1/Fix524132/9600/free/479758_intl_x64_zip.exe)
Package: This is to upgrade MSDSM.sys & MPIO.SYS
KB Article Number(s): 2914743
Language: All (Global)
Platform: x64
Location: (http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows%208.1/Windows%20Server%202012%20R2/sp1/Fix525821/9600/free/479581_intl_x64_zip.exe)
Best regards,
Sophia Sun
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Storage Spaces - Replacing a disk...how?

I have created a 3 disk pool, and I want to swap out one of the disks for a larger one, but see no obvious way to do this... other than of course moving ALL of the data to a non pooled disk, and removing and recreating the pool.. but this seems almost ridiculous.
So what is the solution?? My pc is limited to 4 disks, so when I outgrow, I need to replace a disk with a larger one... Why cant I simply move the data stored on a particular disk, replace it, then move it back? Voila!
This was perhaps one of the main features I was looking forward to, and now it seems fundamentally flawed!
Interesting read.. but ultimately, very disappointing...
http://helgeklein.com/blog/2012/03/windows-8-storage-spaces-bugs-and-design-flaws/
Windows devs really need to think things through a bit more!
DrSoton

Even if this is by design, it can certainly be improved.
A typical SOHO use case is a drive enclosure with four drive slots.
The desirable workflow for extending capacity when exhausted would be
Temporarily add an external USB drive to the pool
Retire the smallest drive (which would move data to other drives)
Remove the smallest drive
Add a large drive
Retire the temporary external drive.
It's possible to do this with a Mirror space (but a bit tricky to figure out how). For Simple it's not possible, not sure about Parity.
I know you guys are tired of hearing of Drive Extender, but this is the silver bullet SOHO use case for DE. It's no big deal for SMB where you presumably can easily extend the number of drive slots in your server room.

Repair-VirtualDisk on Storage Spaces simple volume with retired disk?

Hello,
Does anyone know if it's possible to retire a disk from a Storage Space simple volume, and use the Repair-VirtualDisk commandlet to migrate any data off the retired volume? It sounds like this is how it would work for a parity volume, but it's unclear if
Windows will try to move data off a retired disk of a simple volume. Or is repair actually performing parity recovery?
i.e. I want to replace disks in a simple volume with larger disks, and remove the old disks, is creating a new volume and migrating data the only way?
Thank you!

Hi,
Simple spaces are not resilient to disk failures, so we cannot add a new physical disk to replace the failed physical disk.
If you have backed up the files in that virtual disk, you could delete the disk then remove physical disks from the pool.
For more detailed information, please see:
Storage Spaces - Remove Physical Disk
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/dbbf317b-80d2-4992-b5a9-20b83526a9c2/storage-spaces-remove-physical-disk?forum=winserver8gen
Best Regards,
Mandy
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