Can a hot spare disk failure stop cluster service?

[BeerDog]

Hi all,

I have a Dell PowerVault 220S with a Perc 3/DC controller attached to two Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers running Server 2003 in a cluster.

Recently the cluster service went down and I had to restart the servers. After the reboot, the following message came up in the Array Manager utility:

“PERC 3/DC Controller 0 (Cluster), Array Disk 1:5 Sense Key =2, Sense Code =4, Sense Qualifier =1”

The disk this is showing up on is the hot spare for the array. Basically this means that the hot spare is failing and should be replaced, no big deal.

Could the spare disk failing affect the rest of the array and thus make the cluster service shut down? I looked though the event logs and can’t find anything else that might have affected the cluster service.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks!

 

[mrdenny]

It shouldn't. The array shouldn't care that the hot spare failed (other than to complain that it needs to be replaced).

The OS and cluster service shouldn't care since they don't know that the hot spare exists, much less that it failed.

Denny

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