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How to add physical disk to degraded virtual S100 RAID1 disk
Hello World,
Had an amber status this morning and upon investigation it appears I've somehow lost a phy disk from my Virtual drive. Not sure why, no improper shutdowns etc.
I cant work out how to bring this "Ready" disk 3-03 to re-join Virtual Disk 2. I've run OMSA but have no options as to what to do with this #2 Virtual one. I have options like Check Consistency, Rebuild etc on #1.
What can you suggest I do please to recover my redundancy on Disk #2?
On a Dell T110 II , latest BIOS etc.
Many thanks,
Luke
DELL-Daniel My
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July 5th, 2018 13:00
Hello
If you assign the disk that is in a ready state as a hot spare it should initiate a rebuild. I suggest running diagnostics on the drive first.
http://www.dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals/
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LuMags1
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July 5th, 2018 14:00
Top marks! Set as hot spare and now OMSA is doing magical things. I'll leave this to run and do its thing.
Out of interest. I've got a dual-boot on this T110ii , Win 10 and now Srv2018R2 (for diagnostics since drive failure). Do I need to stay in Server until the rebuild is OK or is this a BIOS/PERC managed activity so I can jump back into Win10 and the rebuild will continue behind the scenes (as OMSA doesn't work on 10 - and understandably so).
Cheers again!!
He wasn't wrong!
LuMags1
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July 5th, 2018 14:00
Hi Daniel,
I played with the hotspare settings but didn't see any options in the PERC controller to rebuild etc. That said I hadn't gone into OMSA as I was expecting it to be done pre-boot so I'll look at that.
Not sure what that link you gave me was meant to do as I got a popup saying "There are no products in this category." .
I'll set that READY disk as hotspare then boot and goto OMSA and see if my options have changed.
Cheers for now,
Luke
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July 5th, 2018 15:00
The S100 is a driver-based controller. If this were a hardware controller then I would say yes, but you will interrupt the rebuild if the operating system is shutdown or restarted. I suggest that you not boot to another OS until the rebuild is complete.