Disks fail aggressively in a single disk stack
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
 - Fabric MetroCluster
 - ATTO FB7500N
 
Issue
Multiple disks fail in a short space of time
Example:
ClusterA::> storage disk show -broken
Original Owner: ClusterB-01
  Checksum Compatibility: block
                                                Drawer                            Usable Physical
    Disk            Outage Reason  HA Shelf Bay  /Slot Chan   Pool  Type    RPM     Size     Size
    --------------- ------------- --- ----- --- ------ ---- ------ ----- ------ -------- --------
    1.51.22         failed        11b    51  22   -/-     A FAILED   SSD      -        -   6.99TB
Original Owner: ClusterB-01
  Checksum Compatibility: block
                                                Drawer                            Usable Physical
    Disk            Outage Reason  HA Shelf Bay  /Slot Chan   Pool  Type    RPM     Size     Size
    --------------- ------------- --- ----- --- ------ ---- ------ ----- ------ -------- --------
    1.51.15         failed        11b    51  15   -/-     A FAILED   SSD      -        -  894.3GB
Original Owner: ClusterA-01
  Checksum Compatibility: block
                                                Drawer                            Usable Physical
    Disk            Outage Reason  HA Shelf Bay  /Slot Chan   Pool  Type    RPM     Size     Size
    --------------- ------------- --- ----- --- ------ ---- ------ ----- ------ -------- --------
    1.51.6          failed         1d    51   6   -/-     B FAILED   SSD      -  894.0GB  894.3GB
    1.51.16         failed         1d    51  16   -/-     B FAILED   SSD      -   6.99TB   6.99TB
    1.51.17         failed         1d    51  17   -/-     B FAILED   SSD      -   6.99TB   6.99TB
    1.51.18         failed         1d    51  18   -/-     B FAILED   SSD      -   6.99TB   6.99TBA significant amount of errors are found in the event log for one of the ATTO bridges
Example:
INFO FC TM Cmd Rcvd: Abort Task Set to LUN:27 on FC Port 1
Error counters on the ATTO bridge are increasing
Example:
; Fibre Channel Error Counts ; Port | Link Failures | Sync Loss | Signal Loss | Invalid Tx | Invalid CRC ;========================================================================== 1 1 2 0 16 4796 2 1 1 0 4 0
