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Disk Configuration - Dell R620

Hi all. Quick question (hopefully an easy one). We have a client that has a Dell R620 ESX host. It has two drives in the server. One of them is flashing degraded. I can't seem to find where it tells me the disk configuration of this server (mirror, stripping, etc.). I want to just swap the drive but I want to confirm if it's redundant and hot-swappable. I've looked everywhere I can find but am clearly overlooking something. Where can I find this info? Thanks in advance!
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Download Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Managed Node and install it on server
This will explore your all server configuration with RAID settings

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=28KFC
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Don't you get the message from RAID utility by starting the server to press specific keys to get to RAID interface? There you can see which RAID exactly you have.
CTRL-R when it states it.... usually on a Dell with a Dell PERC Storage controller.
The updated link to OpenManage is http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1760.openmanage-server-administrator-omsa/ (This has 8.4 for both Windows and ESXi 6.0)

You will need to install the VIB on ESXi using the esxcli software vib install commmand and reboot your host.  Then install the Windows version on a machine to allow you to connect to the ESXi OMSA.  Make sure you check the box to Ignore Certificate Warnings, or OMSA might not log in to the host correctly.
If the server has two physical disks, and you know what the sizes of the disks are, you can then confirm what vcenter sees, if vcenter sees two disks under storage, then it isn't RAID1, if it sees a single disk with the capacity of one disk then it's a mirror, and if it sees one disk with the capacity of two disks then its a RAID0 (oops)

You might also see disk information in the iDRAC.