[VividProfessional]

Hi all,
got a dual disk failure (one failed on marked as failing) these disks look like they are hot swappable and I have done hot swaps on disks in the past on NETAPP stuff but not on a dell poweredge.
is there anything i need to do to get the system to rebuild its array or will it do it all automatically?

regards
dave

 

[bassfisher6522]

My RAID knowledge is limited at best.....but here goes. What RAID configuration to you have set up? What your asking strictly depends on what type of RAID you have set up.

RAID Made Easy | PCWorld

 

[spunk.funk]

Dell Poweredge servers have a hardware RAID controller, with RAID control panel. When you boot the computer, it asks if you want to enter the RAID control panel by pressing CTRL+S. Once in the RAID control panel, you can check which HDD has failed. And check what type of RAID you have (eg) RAID 0, RAID 1 etc. If it is a RAID 0 (striped set across two or more drives) then all data is lost, you can replace the failed drive, but you will have to reinstall. If it is a RAID 1 (Mirrored drives) Or RAID 5, RAID 10 then you can replace the Failed HDD, and boot back into the Dell RAID control panel and choose to Rebuild the array. This should restore the data. This is not a way to avoid backing up, which you should also do in case of failure.