Auto Repair Out of Sync Disks
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Currently when you reboot a HV running OnApp Storage you need to manually repair the disks that have become out of sync. https://onapp.zendesk.com/entries/23181991-Repair-a-VDisk This should be a proactive automatic process much like the way that typical RAID automatically repairs a disk when a new one is inserted.
This is an extremely labor intensive process having to manually click to repair all disks that have become out of sync.
The disk repair should not be shown in the client side, as it currently is. Clients see "disk repair" in their vm history and wonder what is wrong with their vm, causing confusion and leading to an in depth discussion as to how we store their data and why this disk repair was necessary.
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Official comment
Your able to add the auto healing feature, in OnApp version 5.3, onto Integrated storage datastores to repair degraded disk to be complete by the OnApp system without having the manually select repair. To find more information about this feature please check the following link: https://docs.onapp.com/display/IS/Integrated+Storage+Auto+Healing
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Hello all,
In OnApp UI update 3.1.2 we released a new diagnostics page. This is accessible via the left-hand pane under Integrated Storage. One of the many checks / utilities is the ability now to kick off a repair all. This makes it easier to repair all the VDisks under the IS system.
Since 3.1.2, many of the reasons for VDisks becoming degraded have now been resolved. If you are on earlier versions of OnApp and are having issues with IS we strongly recommend planning an upgrade.
More information about the diagnostics can be found at https://docs.onapp.com/display/32AG/Diagnostics
Release notes can be found at https://docs.onapp.com/display/RN/Release+Notes
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Chris you might not wish the auto upgrade to start messing with the system when there is a problem. Say you have an intermittent switch issue or problem with one network card. It could easily overload and destabilise the system while you are fixing it, and might not solve the problem.
Just my two cents, email alert if something goes degraded would be useful though.
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I agree with Dominik, maybe have it as a on/off/alert type feature, where if you want it then you can enable it, or not, or just have an alert email sent at the time a disk becomes degraded (not hourly or nightly in the summary report like we have now) and yet still keep the ability to repair all manually like we have now.
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