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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"> Walter Sklenka
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<b>Sent:</b> Donnerstag, 24. August 2023 12:02<br>
<b>To:</b> 'gpfsug-discuss-request@gpfsug.org' <gpfsug-discuss-request@gpfsug.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: ESS 3500-C5 : rg has resigned permanently<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Does someone eventually have experience with ESS 3500 ( no hybrid config, only NLSAS with 5 enclosures )
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We have issues with a shared recoverygroup. After creating it we made a test of setting only one node active (mybe not an optimal idea)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But since then the recoverygroup is down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We have created a PMR but do not get any response until now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The rg has no vdisks of any filesystem <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:#F3F2F2">[gpfsadmin@hgess02-m ~]$ ^C</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt"><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">[gpfsadmin@hgess02-m ~]$ sudo mmvdisk rg change --rg ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs --restart</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">mmvdisk: </span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">mmvdisk: </span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">mmvdisk: Unable to reset server list for recovery group 'ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs'.</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">mmvdisk: Command failed. </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:#F3F2F2">Examine previous error messages to determine cause.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We also tried <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.174+0200: [I] Command: tsrecgroupserver ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs -f -l root hgess02-n2-hs.invalid</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt"><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.201+0200: [I] Recovery group ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs has resigned permanently</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.201+0200: [E] Command: err 2: tsrecgroupserver ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs -f -l root hgess02-n2-hs.invalid</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.201+0200: Specified entity, such as a disk or file system, does not exist.</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.207+0200: [I] Command: tsrecgroupserver ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs -f -l LG001 hgess02-n2-hs.invalid.</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.207+0200: [E] Command: err 212: tsrecgroupserver ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs -f -l LG001 hgess02-n2-hs.invalid</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.207+0200: The current file system manager failed and no new manager will be appointed. This may cause nodes mounting the file system to experience mount failures.</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.213+0200: [I] Command: tsrecgroupserver ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs -f -l LG002 hgess02-n2-hs.invalid</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.213+0200: [E] Command: err 212: tsrecgroupserver ess3500_hgess02_n1_hs_hgess02_n2_hs -f -l LG002 hgess02-n2-hs.invalid</span><br>
<span style="background:#F3F2F2">2023-08-21_16:57:26.213+0200: The current file system manager failed and no new manager will be appointed. This may cause nodes mounting the file system to experience mount failures.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For us it is crucial to know what we can do if theis happens again ( it has no vdisks yet so it is not critical ).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#161616;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Do you know: is there a non documented way to “vary on”, or activate a recoverygroup again?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The doc :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ess/6.1.6_lts?topic=rgi-recovery-group-issues-shared-recovery-groups-in-ess">https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ess/6.1.6_lts?topic=rgi-recovery-group-issues-shared-recovery-groups-in-ess</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">tells to mmshutdown and mmstartup, but the RGCM does say nothing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When trying to execute any vdisk command it only says “rg down”, no idea how we could recover from that without deleting the rg ( I hope it will never happen, when we have vdisks on it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Have a nice day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Walter <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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