ServerRAID M5014 Controller Virtual Drive Degraded
I have a server with a ServerRAID M5014 controller and I manage it using MegaRaid Storage Manager.
I have two virtual drives set up.
Drive Group 0 utilizes physical drives in slot 0 and 1 and is RAID 1 for the OS.
Drive Group 1 utilizes physical drives in slots 2-7. The drive in slot 7 was a dedicated hot spare and it failed. I took the drive offline and removed then inserted a new drive. I tried to make it a dedicated hot spare on Drive group 1 but it only gives me the option of making it a dedicated hot spare on Drive Group 0. I can make it a Global Hot Spare but when I do that Drive Group 1 still says it's degraded? I'm at a loss. What am I missing????
Thank you in advance for any and all help.
I have two virtual drives set up.
Drive Group 0 utilizes physical drives in slot 0 and 1 and is RAID 1 for the OS.
Drive Group 1 utilizes physical drives in slots 2-7. The drive in slot 7 was a dedicated hot spare and it failed. I took the drive offline and removed then inserted a new drive. I tried to make it a dedicated hot spare on Drive group 1 but it only gives me the option of making it a dedicated hot spare on Drive Group 0. I can make it a Global Hot Spare but when I do that Drive Group 1 still says it's degraded? I'm at a loss. What am I missing????
Thank you in advance for any and all help.
I'm familiar with the MegaRaid Storage Manager as I used to manage a lot of JBODs with it. Is there any way to get down to the bios level RAID controller instead, and see if you can fix things there???
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Thanks Dazer,
That was going to be my next step. I was hoping to avoid rebooting the server (it's our exchange server). I'm going to try a simple reboot first. See if that "resets" the controller. If the logical drive still says degraded after that I will go into the bios and see what I can try there.
That was going to be my next step. I was hoping to avoid rebooting the server (it's our exchange server). I'm going to try a simple reboot first. See if that "resets" the controller. If the logical drive still says degraded after that I will go into the bios and see what I can try there.
What steps did you go through to remove the bad drive? MegaRAID has some specific steps to go through to "mark as bad..."
Hello clifford_m71,
I may have gotten this wrong, but by 'offline', did you power off the server? It does not sound like it as this is your Exchange server, but i wanted to make sure. Failed HDDs must be replaced while the Array Controller is alive.
Just wanted to be sure...
Rojosho
I may have gotten this wrong, but by 'offline', did you power off the server? It does not sound like it as this is your Exchange server, but i wanted to make sure. Failed HDDs must be replaced while the Array Controller is alive.
Just wanted to be sure...
Rojosho
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There was an oversight on my part. I was using the wrong size hard drive when trying to rebuild the array.