HP Lefthand RAID 6

[az-reth]

Hello everyone, back with another weird RAID/SAN case, where I'm at a dead end. I'm hoping some of you may be able to give me some insight.

First the details:

• 12 900GB SAS drives, in RAID6
• Inside VMFS, with 7 VMDKs
• Data is striped across those 7 VMDKs, but pattern is not consistent
• Inside is another VMFS, with more VMDKs, and those contain client data

So far I have tried:

• To reconstruct the "RAID" formed by the 7 VMDKs with DE or UFS, but neither are able to see anything (UFS detects a "Lefthand partition").
• Set up a VM in VMWare Workstation to see if by adding the VMDKs it would recognize them (it doesn't)
• Set up an ESXi VM, load the VMDKs into its datastore, and try and create a VM from there, no luck

After this I'm stumped, does anyone have an idea as to what can be tried?

[Doomer]

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