Questions tagged [3ware]
3ware are SATA and SAS RAID controller cards from LSI
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Why is the 9650SE RAID1 not showing the full size of the disks?
This is a follow-on to How can I grow a 3Ware 9650SE RAID1 under ESXi 5.0?
I've successively replaced 1TB drives in my RAID1 with 2TB drives hoping that I can grow the datastore I've got in ESXi 5.0. ...
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How can I increase the size of a RAID 1 array from 750GB to 1TB? 3ware
3ware 9650SE-2LP
Array is 750GB volume, RAID 1. One drive is 750GB, the other is 1TB. Looking to replace the 750GB drive with a 1TB. Will the array rebuild to the max size of 1TB, or will the array ...
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3WARE 9650-4LPML JBOD DISK to RAID - 1 Mirror Migration How To?
It is possible to migrate a single disk, to Raid 1 as per Table 10 in the User Guide Page 122:
http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/3ware9650SE-UsrGuide.pdf
I am trying to find what the best method ...
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RAID-6: better to replace two dead drives at the same time, or one at a time?
We have a 16-drive RAID-6 that has three problem drives. Two are already dead, and the third is giving SMART warnings. (Nevermind how it got in such a bad state.)
Obviously we want to replace the ...
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3Ware RAID6 array sometimes hanging. Undetected broken disk?
We have a Debian server with 3Ware 9650SE 8-drive RAID controller, with 5 disk RAID6 array, acting as virtual machine host, all Linux. Problems keep occurring and I suspect an undetected broken disk.
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Extending a live 3Ware RAID6 array in Linux with tw_cli
I have a Debian Linux machine with a 3Ware 9650SE RAID controller with a RAID6 array. tw_cli show this:
Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Port Stripe Size(GB)
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3Ware 9650SE is rebuilding RAID6 array with two degraded disks?
I have a RAID6 array on a 3Ware 9650SE which is degraded:
tw_cli /c0/u0 show
Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Port Stripe Size(GB)
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Error: (CLI:144) Invalid drive(s) specified when trying to rebuild 3ware RAID
We have a RAID 5 using a 3ware 9550SX RAID controller that shows one degraded disk. There is a spare drive configured for the array, but it wasn't used automatically as intended.
The current array ...
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HW Raid controller error
On one of my old servers when i was randomly checking for system messages /var/log/messages in this Redhat case. I came across this message
Mar 9 12:11:46 app-prod kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: ERROR: (...
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Raid 5 rebuilding epic fail
Someone has asked me to rebuild a faulty raid 5 on a 3ware raid controller. I have 3 drives, all of them is 160 GB. I've gone through the steps,
ie selected the degraded array unit, and then gone over ...
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How can I grow a 3Ware 9650SE RAID1 under ESXi 5.0?
Thanks to this question I've now got my ESXi 5.0.0 (Build 623860) running/booting off a physically enlarged 9650SE controlled RAID1 array. The 1TB drives had been replaced with 2TBs; I'd like to ...
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