Failed Logical Drive - Awaiting Initialization

What Caused the Problem?

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.

Important Notes

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.

2

Select the affected array and then select Array>>Initialize.

Result: The logical drives associated with the affected array in the Logical View of the Subsystem Management Window display an Operation in Progress icon as initialization starts. When initialization is completed, the logical drive returns to an Optimal state.

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.

3

If selecting Array>>Initialize does not start initialization, do the following:

a

Select a replaced drive; then, select Drive>>Fail to fail the drive

b

Wait for the drive to fail; then, select Drive>>Revive to revive the drive

c

Repeat for every replaced drive.

d

Select the affected array; then, select Array>>Initialize again.

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.

4

Select Recheck to rerun the Recovery Guru to ensure that the failure has been fixed.

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.

6

Restore the data for the re-initialized logical drives from backup.

7

If desired, create any FlashCopys that you deleted in Step 1.