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Replacing/Repairing a failed drive in 2-node Hyper-V S2D Cluster.

Justin Buckley 0 Reputation points
2025-02-14T17:54:53.5566667+00:00

Hello! I'm working with a 2-node Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V S2D Cluster (we'll call the nodes HV1 and HV2). There are 8 x 4TB NVMe drives per server, and 2 CSVs (two-way mirror/CSVFS_ReFS) used for VM data storage.

HV1 had a physical disk lose connection and was subsequently auto-retired. The storage pool (fixed) and both CSVs are shown to be healthy and online.

I have a replacement drive on hand, but I'd like to also attemp to re-seat the existing failed/retired drive in case it was actually just a connection issue. How do I safely go about this, while also keeping the cluster up and running?

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  1. Ian Xue-MSFT 41,716 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2025-02-19T03:37:48.4+00:00

    Hi Justin Buckley,

    Thanks for your post. Please refer to the following steps to replace drivers:

    1. Check status of storage subsystem and storage jobs by using PowerShell:

    Get-StorageSubSystem Cluster | Get-StorageJob

    1. See physical disk footprint:

    Get-PhysicalDisk | ft DeviceId,FriendlyName,SerialNumber,Uniqueid,*Status,foot,Usage,PhysicalLocation

    1. Retire bad disk, one specific disk

    Get-PhysicalDisk -SerialNumber XXXXXXXXX | Set-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired

    1. See physical disk footprint (to get any disk by SerialNumber). Monitor until footprint is zero.

    Get-PhysicalDisk -SerialNumber XXXXXXXXX | ft DeviceId,FriendlyName,SerialNumber,Uniqueid,*Status,foot,Usage,PhysicalLocation

    1. Remove retired disk from storage pool.

    $FailedDisk = Get-PhysicalDisk -SerialNumber XXXXXXXX

    $Pool = $FailedDisk | Get-StoragePool -IsPrimordial:$false

    Remove-PhysicalDisk -StoragePool $pool -PhysicalDisks $FailedDisk

    1. Enable LED light of physical disk on a server rack, to more easily identify the disk.

    Get-PhysicalDisk |? -SerialNumber XXXXXXXXX | Enable-PhysicalDiskIdentification

    1. Physically remove the failed disk from the server chassis.
    2. Physically install the new disk into the server chassis.
    3. Disable LED light of physical disk on a server chassis.

    Disable-PhysicalDiskIdentification

    1. Add new physical disk into pool.

    $disk = Get-PhysicalDisk |? CanPool -like True

    Get-StoragePool S2D | Add-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks $disk

    1. Get virtual disk and repair virtual disk. Repair job may start on its own.

    Get-VirtualDisk

    Repair-VirtualDisk VirtualDiskName

    1. Wait until repair completes.

    Get-StorageJob

    1. Once the repair storage jobs are complete, repeat steps above for any other capacity disks which need to be replaced.

    Best Regards,

    Ian Xue

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