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RAID 5 recovery on DELL2900 with Vmware
Seems two HDD's went down on our Vmware 3.5 server that were in joined to virtual disk with datastore.
Does someone know or have any idea if this is somehow recoverable? ANy software/hardware suggestions?
Thanks
Does someone know or have any idea if this is somehow recoverable? ANy software/hardware suggestions?
Thanks
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Yeah drive flashes amber so no luck to bring it online.
If the last drive to go offline is not functional, then there isn't much else you can do. You "might" be able to force online the other drive, but if they didn't go offline at the same time, then you will have 0% chance of accessing any data with the "older" drive.
It doesn't make any difference how many drives you had in your RAID 5 - only one drive can fail, and if two fail and the last one is no good, then you're pretty much out of luck.
It doesn't make any difference how many drives you had in your RAID 5 - only one drive can fail, and if two fail and the last one is no good, then you're pretty much out of luck.