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April 4th, 2025 13:37
Cant get disks out of Foreign mode
PERC H730P Mini
When replacing two disks that were about to fail I did the big mistake to replace the 2nd one before the 1st one was finished rebuilding. So it crashed, and i have to reinstall the whole thing.
So out of 8 disks the two that were physically replaced have state Foreign now.
I am not able get it out of foregin mode and get them online.
Pressing F2 on PD management only give me option to blink disk.
Foregin View gives me no respons on F2.
I am not very familiar with this setup, so I need some assistance with how to solve this so i can reinstall the server.
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DELL-Charles R
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April 4th, 2025 17:43
Hello,
Two things to do is Discard Preserved Cache and Clear Foreign
Managing Preserved Cache
Save, Exit, Reboot to controller <CTRL+R>
Clearing Foreign Configuration
DELL-Charles R
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April 7th, 2025 15:08
Hello,
I'll note that we don't support XenServer but we can work with the hard drives.
Give the system a flea power drain ;
drain flea power (shut down, disconnect power cables and Network cables, hold in power button 20 seconds with cords removed).
After flea power drain, system has to set for 3 minutes for DRAC to reset without any power plugged in.
Then plug in NIC and power but wait 2 minutes before power on to give DRAC time to initialize.
Then delete your arrays so that all drives are in Ready state
Then boot to <F10> LifeCycle Controller and run the built in hardware diagnostics to see which drives are failed and need replaced.
In the Image it shows Capacity of those Failed drives as 0.000KB. Those are likely need replaced..
oykleppe
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April 7th, 2025 12:11
That worked! Thanks alot
oykleppe
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April 7th, 2025 14:48
@DELL-Charles R Your suggestion solved the problem for the mentioned disks.
I deleted the virtual disk they were a member of, and created a new virtual disk containing all the physical disks. All disk are identical. And it looks all good.
Then i install XenServer, and upon rebooting the machine to start xenserver the virtual disk has failed. 5 of the disks are reporting Failed.
Disks 2 and 3 are the new ones, and they have survived along with one more.
I have repeated this 3 times (created virtual disk and installed and rebooted) but every time the disks are failing and breaking the vitual disk.
Any idea what is happening here?
oykleppe
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April 22nd, 2025 06:13
Seems like the mentioned disks were end of life afterall. I replaced them and now things are working again.