So after copying everyone off the limping T3 arrays I arranged for a Sun engineer to return to site to fix it properly. Sun Dispatch had a bit of a moan because I’d had the parts for too long, but they realised it’d make most sense to keep the parts on site rather than collect them and then send them back to me 🙂
After replacing a loop card in the secondary unit the problems mostly went away. I guess this makes sense since it was the second unit we were having trouble connecting to. The engineer also replaced the primary controller which fixed the remaining minor problems. Finally we had a working array.
I’ve now wiped the disks, updated the firmware (not really sure why I did that!), and cleared the NVRAM. They’re all ready to pass on to someone else now.
So, just the failing cluster node and broken KDC to deal with… 🙁
