Our nonprofit was recently donated a MD3200 dual controller SAS array for our volunteer fire department and veteran group programs.
I was able to upgrade all firmware and NVSRAM to the newest version 08.20.18.60 on both controllers.
We have attached the SAN to 1 of our ESXI 6.0 hosts and created a raid 6 pool of 7 1TB SAS drives.
We assigned the mapping using Controller 0 Port 1 and Controller 1 Port1 for testing. Both light up and show up in ESXI.
The "Recovery Guru" is identifying several errors:
here is the print out from the hardware-Physical Disks:
PROFILE FOR STORAGE ARRAY: CNPITH-SAN03 (Tue Sep 27 11:32:44 EDT 2016)
DRIVES------------------------------
SUMMARY
Number of physical disks: 7
Current media type(s): Physical Disk (7)
Current interface type(s): Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) (7)
BASIC:
ENCLOSURE, SLOT STATUS CAPACITY MEDIA TYPE INTERFACE TYPE CURRENT DATA RATE PRODUCT ID FIRMWARE VERSION CAPABILITIES
0, 5 Optimal 931.513 GB Physical Disk SAS 6 Gbps ST31000424SS KS68
0, 6 Optimal 931.513 GB Physical Disk SAS 3 Gbps ST31000424SS KS68
0, 7 Optimal 931.513 GB Physical Disk SAS 6 Gbps ST31000424SS KS68
0, 8 Optimal 931.513 GB Physical Disk SAS 6 Gbps ST31000424SS KS68
0, 9 Optimal 931.513 GB Physical Disk SAS 6 Gbps ST31000424SS KS68
0, 10 Optimal 931.513 GB Physical Disk SAS 6 Gbps ST31000424SS KS68
0, 11 Optimal 931.513 GB Physical Disk SAS 6 Gbps ST31000424SS KS68
DRIVE CHANNELS (RAID Controller Module 0):
ENCLOSURE, SLOT PREFERRED CHANNEL REDUNDANT CHANNEL
0, 5 2 1
0, 6 1 2
0, 7 2 1
0, 8 1 2
0, 9 2 1
0, 10 1 2
0, 11 2 1
HOT SPARE COVERAGE:
The following disk groups are not protected: CNPITH-SAN03_DG01
Total hot spare physical disks: 0
Standby: 0
In use: 0
DETAILS
Physical Disk at Enclosure 0, Slot 5
Status: Optimal
Mode: Assigned
Raw capacity: 931.513 GB
Usable capacity: 931.013 GB
World-wide identifier: 50:00:c5:00:34:17:46:63:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Associated disk group: CNPITH-SAN03_DG01
Port Channel
0 2
1 1
Media type: Physical Disk
Interface type: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Physical Disk path consistency: Degraded
Security capable: No
Secure: No
Read/write accessible: Yes
Physical Disk security key identifier: Not Applicable
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Current data rate: 6 Gbps
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical sector size: 512 bytes
Product ID: ST31000424SS
Physical Disk firmware version: KS68
Serial number: 9WK4ASRR
Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Date of manufacture: May 16, 2011
Physical Disk at Enclosure 0, Slot 6
Status: Optimal
Mode: Assigned
Raw capacity: 931.513 GB
Usable capacity: 931.013 GB
World-wide identifier: 50:00:c5:00:34:17:12:d7:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Associated disk group: CNPITH-SAN03_DG01
Port Channel
0 1
1 2
Media type: Physical Disk
Interface type: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Physical Disk path consistency: Degraded
Security capable: No
Secure: No
Read/write accessible: Yes
Physical Disk security key identifier: Not Applicable
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Current data rate: 3 Gbps
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical sector size: 512 bytes
Product ID: ST31000424SS
Physical Disk firmware version: KS68
Serial number: 9WK4AS47
Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Date of manufacture: May 16, 2011
Physical Disk at Enclosure 0, Slot 7
Status: Optimal
Mode: Assigned
Raw capacity: 931.513 GB
Usable capacity: 931.013 GB
World-wide identifier: 50:00:c5:00:34:16:be:67:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Associated disk group: CNPITH-SAN03_DG01
Port Channel
0 2
1 1
Media type: Physical Disk
Interface type: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Physical Disk path consistency: Degraded
Security capable: No
Secure: No
Read/write accessible: Yes
Physical Disk security key identifier: Not Applicable
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Current data rate: 6 Gbps
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical sector size: 512 bytes
Product ID: ST31000424SS
Physical Disk firmware version: KS68
Serial number: 9WK4AQZR
Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Date of manufacture: May 16, 2011
Physical Disk at Enclosure 0, Slot 8
Status: Optimal
Mode: Assigned
Raw capacity: 931.513 GB
Usable capacity: 931.013 GB
World-wide identifier: 50:00:c5:00:34:17:80:7f:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Associated disk group: CNPITH-SAN03_DG01
Port Channel
0 1
1 2
Media type: Physical Disk
Interface type: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Physical Disk path consistency: Degraded
Security capable: No
Secure: No
Read/write accessible: Yes
Physical Disk security key identifier: Not Applicable
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Current data rate: 6 Gbps
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical sector size: 512 bytes
Product ID: ST31000424SS
Physical Disk firmware version: KS68
Serial number: 9WK4ATZJ
Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Date of manufacture: May 16, 2011
Physical Disk at Enclosure 0, Slot 9
Status: Optimal
Mode: Assigned
Raw capacity: 931.513 GB
Usable capacity: 931.013 GB
World-wide identifier: 50:00:c5:00:34:17:8c:9b:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Associated disk group: CNPITH-SAN03_DG01
Port Channel
0 2
1 1
Media type: Physical Disk
Interface type: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Physical Disk path consistency: Degraded
Security capable: No
Secure: No
Read/write accessible: Yes
Physical Disk security key identifier: Not Applicable
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Current data rate: 6 Gbps
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical sector size: 512 bytes
Product ID: ST31000424SS
Physical Disk firmware version: KS68
Serial number: 9WK4B47M
Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Date of manufacture: May 16, 2011
Physical Disk at Enclosure 0, Slot 10
Status: Optimal
Mode: Assigned
Raw capacity: 931.513 GB
Usable capacity: 931.013 GB
World-wide identifier: 50:00:c5:00:34:16:e6:53:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Associated disk group: CNPITH-SAN03_DG01
Port Channel
0 1
1 2
Media type: Physical Disk
Interface type: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Physical Disk path consistency: Degraded
Security capable: No
Secure: No
Read/write accessible: Yes
Physical Disk security key identifier: Not Applicable
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Current data rate: 6 Gbps
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical sector size: 512 bytes
Product ID: ST31000424SS
Physical Disk firmware version: KS68
Serial number: 9WK4ARPZ
Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Date of manufacture: May 16, 2011
Physical Disk at Enclosure 0, Slot 11
Status: Optimal
Mode: Assigned
Raw capacity: 931.513 GB
Usable capacity: 931.013 GB
World-wide identifier: 50:00:c5:00:34:17:9e:57:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Associated disk group: CNPITH-SAN03_DG01
Port Channel
0 2
1 1
Media type: Physical Disk
Interface type: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Physical Disk path consistency: Degraded
Security capable: No
Secure: No
Read/write accessible: Yes
Physical Disk security key identifier: Not Applicable
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Current data rate: 6 Gbps
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical sector size: 512 bytes
Product ID: ST31000424SS
Physical Disk firmware version: KS68
Serial number: 9WK4B4N1
Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Date of manufacture: May 16, 2011
It appears from my reading that their is an issue with channel 2 on the raid controller.
We would appreciate any input.