Hey guys!

 

I have a customer that recently had an alarm with their Dell PowerVault MD3260i when I checked it there were 3 physical disks had a failed status.

After working with them for a while, we could revive all 3 disks but the Disk Pool still has the Failed Status.

Dell storage manager recovery procedure recommends deleting the disk pool and recreating it again. It also states that this would erase all data in the disk pool. That is not an option being this a hospital.

If I add more drives to the disk pool, and expand the storage space, would I be able to recover the disk pool?

If I add hard drives to the storage, would I be able to copy the data from one Disk Pool to another?

Also, the hospital's most recent backup dates were 2 years ago, so, risking data is not something we want to do.