Foreign configuration typically comes when you insert drive from one server to another. It is coming as the configuration on drive and controller is not matching. You need to try importing foreign configuration to get the virtual disk back. You can refer "Importing Or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using The VD Mgmt Menu" section on page 44 of below link for details
Sometime disk go to foreign state before failure. In such cases drive may show fail state once you import the foreign configuration. So it is not guaranteed that foreign import will fix the issue always. If it is recovere please take the backup immediately.
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Foreign configuration typically comes when you insert drive from one server to another. It is coming as the configuration on drive and controller is not matching. You need to try importing foreign configuration to get the virtual disk back. You can refer "Importing Or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using The VD Mgmt Menu" section on page 44 of below link for details
https://dl.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprtl_adapters/poweredge-rc-h310_user's%20guide_en-us.pdf
Sometime disk go to foreign state before failure. In such cases drive may show fail state once you import the foreign configuration. So it is not guaranteed that foreign import will fix the issue always. If it is recovere please take the backup immediately.