{"id":16579,"date":"2014-05-29T09:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T09:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16579"},"modified":"2014-05-29T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T09:24:33","slug":"storage-spaces-drives-do-not-show-physical-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16579","title":{"rendered":"Storage Spaces Drives Do Not Show Physical Location"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was doing some work with some SSDs yesterday that had previously had some firmware issues. I wanted to verify that everything was OK, so I popped the disks into the DataOn 1640 JBOD that is in the lab at work. The firmware was upgraded, and the disks were eligible to join a storage pool, but they were not reporting a physical location.<\/p>\n

A Storage Spaces certified JBOD (there is a special HCL category) must be able to report disk locations using SCSI Enclosure Services (SES). You can see my problem below; 4 SSDs are not reporting their enclosure or slot locations, but the other disks in the JBOD are just fine.<\/p>\n

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I contacted the folks in DataOn and had a near instant response. Run the following cmdlet twice:<\/p>\n

Update-StorageProviderCache -DiscoveryLevel Full<\/p>\n

I did that, refreshed Server Manager and \u2026 no change.<\/p>\n

Ah \u2026 but this isn\u2019t a simple Storage Spaces build. This is a clustered Storage Spaces installation. I jumped over to the other node in my SOFS, the \u201cread-write server\u201d, and ran the cmdlets there. One refresh later and everything was as it should be.<\/p>\n

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Now all of the disks are reporting both their enclosure and their slots.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Rocky in DataOn for his help!<\/p>\n

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I was doing some work with some SSDs yesterday that had previously had some firmware issues. I wanted to verify that everything was OK, so I popped the disks into the DataOn 1640 JBOD that is in the lab at work. The firmware was upgraded, and the disks were eligible to join a storage pool, … Continue reading “Storage Spaces Drives Do Not Show Physical Location”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[63,180,99,100,120],"class_list":["post-16579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-failover-clustering","tag-hardware","tag-storage","tag-storage-spaces","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t