Had serious palpitations last Fri lunchtime, one of our main Solaris server's had an issue with its meta disk / raid config. It wasn't a good scenario as the 2 internal physical drives were reporting errors on the exect same slice.
Thankfully preliminary checks showed this didn't look like a physical error but to be sure and to fix removed meta disk from vfstab and replaced it with single physical disk so we could fsck the disks and clear and rebuild the meta disks (if no physical errors)
Anyway to cut long story short its been quite a while since I've worked on Sun Servers and I clean forgot that their POST checks tend to be very thorough. When a windows server takes prob 30secs at most the V490 spends 20mins checking. For about 15 of these 20mins I was thinking this server is finished !*?#
2 Lessons learned, a) never put a solaris server into power off, just reboot and b) if you do go of and make cup of tea and relax :-)
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