Importing Foreign Config from RACADM

Question

Hello,

I need help using racadm to import foreign configs on a drive.

Disk.Bay.7:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Slot.6-1
Status = Warning
DeviceDescription = Disk 7 in Backplane 1 of RAID Controller in Slot 6
RollupStatus = Warning
Name = Physical Disk 0:1:7
State = Foreign

C:\Windows\system32>racadm raid importconfig:RAID.Slot.6-1
RAC1040 : Successfully accepted the RAID storage configuration operation.
To apply the configuration operation, create a configuration job, and then restart the server.
To create the required commit and reboot jobs, run the jobqueue command.
For more information about the jobqueue command, enter the RACADM command "racadm help jobqueue".

The server was rebooted before creation of a job as stated in the output of the above command. After the reboot I ran the same command as above and rec' the following.

C:\Windows\system32>racadm raid importconfig:RAID.Slot.6-1
ERROR: STOR063 : Adapter Import in not Available Check the status of Pdisks.
Enable clustered assignment mode or unassign the virtual disk from the
Virtual Adapter it is currently assigned to and retry the operation.
 Message Unable to assign the specified virtual disk to multiple Virtual
Adapters in single assignment mode.
In order to prevent data loss, the system has prevented the assignment
of a Virtual Disk to multiple Virtual Adapters because the clustered
assignment mode is not enabled.

If I go and create a job now:

racadm jobqueue create RAID.Slot.6-1 -r pwrcycle -s TIME_NOW -e TIME_NA

Will this solve the issue? This is in a production environment so I don't want to just reboot it on a guess.

This is a Dell T420 running iDRAC 7 on Server 2012

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

DELL-Shine K · Accepted Answer

There is no need to reboot the server to import foreign disks using racadm. This can be done in 2 steps

Run below command to initiate clear foreign config

racadm raid importconfig:RAID.Slot.6-1

Run below command to apply the setting real time (Without reboot)

racadm jobqueue create RAID.Slot.6-1 -s TIME_NOW --realtime

This command will return job id and you can track that job to track the status of import

Note : Ensure you have latest iDRAC FW installed on the server

hQWeedEater · Answer

Thank you very much for your help.   The --realtime operator did not work for me - I assume because of my FW version but this is helpful moving forward.

TrademarkQ · Answer

I'm having a similar issue with a PERC H710P Adapter (PCI Slot 6) and it appears that it does not support realtime configurations.

C:\ >racadm jobqueue create RAID.Slot.6-1 -s TIME_NOW --realtime
ERROR: STOR081 : The job could not be created because the reboot type selected for the job creation and the reboot type required for pending operations do not match.
Change the reboot type for job creation and retry the operation.

C:\ >racadm storage get controllers:RAID.Slot.6-1
RAID.Slot.6-1
Status = Ok
Name = PERC H710P Adapter (PCI Slot 6)
FirmwareVersion = 21.3.5-0002
DriverVersion = 6.805.03.00
RealtimeConfigurationCapability = Incapable <==I think this is the issue

I would not suggest running racadm with the "-r pwrcycle -s TIME_NOW -e TIME_NA" options because in my case, it immediately rebooted my production server (unless that is what you are intending to do).

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