Openmanage showing degraded physical disk
I have a dell server that is showing a degraded physical drive at 0:1:0. My question is, is this is this indicative of a hard drive dying to do I just need to rebuild the array? Right now this is what im seeing inside Openmanage:
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Casey Weaver
The drive has already been marked as failed or pending failed. You'll need to replace the hard drive and then run a rebuild. http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/videos~en/documents~esupport-rebuild-a-drive-using-omsa-video-en.aspx
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The drive is part of the array. I figured this was Dells way of saying the drive is failing. However, it just says degraded. Dont think ive seen openmanage show a physical drive as degraded, its typically the virtual drive that shows degraded.
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Thanks to both of you for the help. I figured that was what this meant just wanted some confirmation.
Just for clarification ... you are right ... it was marked as "degraded" because of its predicted failure. It hadn't failed (fallen out of the array) yet, but it passed the error threshold and is predicted to fail at some point.
Bear in mind you should take the physical drive offline with OMSA before removing it if it is just degraded.