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  • 1.  IBM V7000 SRA command 'discoverArrays' failed. Invalid Array ID. Refer to IBM SAN Volume Controller troubleshooting

    Posted Oct 24, 2013 04:27 AM

    Design is v7000 to v7000 Unified.

    I created a full administrator level user "sradmin" on both SVC.  I logged in and validated that athentication is working.

    I checked that both CIM intefaces (TCP port 5989) are open and listening on both SAN controllers.  I have a test SRM lun allocated two different hosts in two seperate datacenters hosted by two seperate vCenter servers. All the rest of SRM configuration has gone well but when I go to "Add an Array Manager" I get the below error

    SRA command 'discoverArrays' failed. Invalid Array ID.

    Refer to IBM SAN Volume Controller troubleshooting

    The IBM documenation on this topic   http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/strhosts/ic/topic/com.ibm.help.strghosts.doc/PDFs/SVC_Adapter_for_VMware_VC_SRM_2.1.0_…

    Page 14 is 90% of all that matters and no real detail.

    ...lacks details about how the application (SRM Agent:   IBMSVCSRAUtil ) is setup.  It launches and is vary vague as to fields and terms are not even correct (refers to "MDisk Group ID" which I can only surmise that this is referring to "mDisk Pool" name.

    The Clint then as an "OK" button which you click and nothing happens.  I don't know if this is expected or not. It go to next screen as noted in PDF but no matter what I input into the tiny boxes.. nothing changes..... though it now does show as having SRM agents to SRM (see attachments)

    Hopefully someone has this working and can clarify what I am missing.. I am sure it is something simple.



  • 2.  RE: IBM V7000 SRA command 'discoverArrays' failed. Invalid Array ID. Refer to IBM SAN Volume Controller troubleshooting
    Best Answer

    Posted Oct 28, 2013 02:12 PM

    After reaching out to a friend ... who happens to have clawed their way through the setup of the IBM SVC (v7000) to work with SRM 5.x

    Here is the fix.

    The field noted as "mDisk Group ID" is a numerical value of the replication group ID of the remote secondary site SAN (remote SAN) for the "mDisk Pool" (name changed from mDisk Group to Storage Pool but are the same thing)

    Attached are screen shots from initial tool install on each site's SRM server, to the point it can join under SRM as a managed controller. Hopefully this will provide enough detail that others can avoid the pitfalls I ran into.



  • 3.  RE: IBM V7000 SRA command 'discoverArrays' failed. Invalid Array ID. Refer to IBM SAN Volume Controller troubleshooting

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 29, 2013 04:34 PM

    I can feed this back to IBM if the documentation that ships with the SRA (you were using the PDF's contained within the SRA zip file right?) is confusing or unclear. I just checked the User Guides for v2.1 and 2.2 of the SRA but cannot see where they flip flop between "MDisk Group ID" and "MDisk Pool Name". Can you point me to the relevant page numbers that are misleading? The User Guides seem to only use the "MDisk Group ID" designation and show an example where the field is populated with the numeric value. Glad you got past this but if I can get things reworded to help others will do what I can.



  • 4.  RE: IBM V7000 SRA command 'discoverArrays' failed. Invalid Array ID. Refer to IBM SAN Volume Controller troubleshooting

    Posted Oct 29, 2013 06:09 PM

    Based on google search of SRM  for IBM SVC  V7000 I got this documentation

    http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/strhosts/ic/topic/com.ibm.help.strghosts.doc/PDFs/SVC_Adapter_for_VMware_VC_SRM_2.1.0_UG.pdf

    They refer to "MDisk group ID"  (page 14) is 90 of value of pdf.

    what is completely lacking is how to get that ID.  I now SVC CLI and knew the translation of the terms "mDisk Group" was transferred to "mDisk Pool" ... so once I was reminded by a friend that ID does not mean description field (as the DS8000 products SRM uses), then this made sense.