Hi, I have a proliant dl380 g7 with a failed disk in my raid5. So I have removed the failed disk (bay4). I rebooted the server to go into the raid manager bios (f8 at reboot) but the only thing I can do there is delete or view raid.
I wanted to verify if spare replaced the drive or not, very little information there. So I booted into windows and opened array configuration utility. Now I am not sure what to understand in the info I get there. First the spare is shown as "active spare". If I look at the physical view, the active spare icon shows some plus signs moving around the icon. Not sure what that means.
Here is the info I get;
When clicking on the array on the left pane, physical view, array with spare
- status failed (didn't the spare do his job so it's supposed to be status OK?)
- Failed drive; bay 4, assigned spare bay 7 (active spare)
When clicking on the spare drive in left pane
- Status ; ok
- drive configuration type; spare
Choosing "logical drive" in left pane, logical view
- Status : ok
- Parity initialization status; initialization completed
- Array status; failed
For me there are some conflicting information. So what does it all mean? Did the spare replaced the failed drive? Now do I just have to replace my failed drive in bay4?
Normally in raid configuration managers you have access to a history of what happened, like (drive 4 failed, spare drive rebuilding, etc....) but on this server I have no information like this.
Last time we changed the failed drive and server did not reboot. We had to put back the failed drive and do a "last know good" in windows so I wanted to verify all the info regarding the state of the raid and I am lost.
Please advise
Thanks