Hello all. I hope someone can help.
Our server (W2012R2) crashed. It has a Tiered storage pool with 2 x SSD and 2 x HDD.
On reboot after the crash, the storage pool went into read-only mode as both SSD in my storage pool failed with a "lost communication" error. The drives show up just fine in Disk Management. The drive SMART parameters are good.
It seems as if the pool and the drive has amnesia and forgot they were made for each other.
This is a production File Server and we urgently need it back up. Very much appreciate any assistance or leads provided.
Unfortunately I cannot post images until microsoft verifies my account.
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I've done the following to no avail (in the hope that I can at least access the data in the pool so I can copy the VM to another location and start it):
Get-StoragePool <PoolName> | Set-StoragePool -IsReadOnly $false
Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "Disk Satu" | Get-Disk | Set-Disk -IsReadOnly $true
Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "Disk Satu" | Get-Disk | Set-Disk -IsOffline $false
Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "Disk Satu"
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I've tried adding drives and it fails due to the pool being in an operational-state of read-only, even when the IsReadOnly flag is false.
I've considered forcefully retiring the SSD (one or both) but I am concerned this will destroy the integrity of the overall pool.