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December 27th, 2024 20:07
Clearing a Foreign Disk - Question
Hello,
I have a very old R630 at a remote office that was running low on space. There was one free slot so I shipped a disk that had been used elsewhere that matched the specs of the disks already in the RAID group. It is now installed and the state shows as "Foreign". In reading up on it, I know I can clear the Foreign configuration but have issues/questions that I hope someone can help with!
First: in the IDRAC8 Express GUI interface, when I browse to Controllers, Setup, Foreign Configuration, I see a VIRTUAL disk listed as "Foreign". I see nothing when I expand it to associate this with the Foreign physical disk, although I'm 99% sure they are basically referring to the same thing - but that lack of clarity concerns me, I could be missing something. We do have a live virtual disk of course and I don't want to affect it! Also, not that I'm importing it, but it says the state after import would be "failed" - which I don't know if that means a problem or not.
Second, I tried the racadm approach and got an error message:
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ERROR: STOR099 : Unable to find the FQDD <FQDD> because an invalid FQDD is entered or an operation is pending on the specified FQDD. Do the following and then retry the operation:
1) Make sure the FQDD entered is valid.
2) Make sure an operation is not pending on the FQDD identified in the message.
For more information refer to the RACADM Command Line Reference Guide.
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I literally copied/pasted the FQDD from the results of the "storage get pdisks -o -p state" command, so I believe it's valid. I show no pending tasks.
Any suggestions? This is IDRAC8 2.61.60.60.
DELL-Erman O
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December 30th, 2024 07:30
Hello,
Make sure it matches exactly what's listed in the output of the
storage get pdisks -o -p statecommand. You can check for any jobs in the queue by runningracadm jobqueue view. If there are pending jobs, you'll need to clear them first. You can do that with theracadm jobqueue delete -i <job_id>command.or as an alternative method you can use:
To clear the foreign configuration:
1. In the iDRAC web interface, go to Overview > Storage > Controllers > Setup.
The Setup Controllers page is displayed.
2. In the Foreign Configuration section, from the Controller drop-down menu, select the controller for which you want to
clear the foreign configuration.
3. From the Apply Operation Mode drop-down menu, select when you want to clear the data.
4. Click Clear.
Based on the selected operation mode, the virtual disks residing on the physical disk is erased.
Hope that helps!
Tim_1965
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December 30th, 2024 16:48
Thank you very much @DELL-Erman O ! So I literally copied/pasted the results of "storage get pdisks -o -p state" into the command and still got the error, and the job queue shows only older failed or completed tasks, nothing pending.
For the GUI approach -- that's exactly what I was going to do initially, however it's a bit nerve racking as we DO have a live virtual disk, of course, that's serving data. The interface just shows that a virtual disk will be removed without clearly linking it to the new physical disk I just added. Is there any indicator in the GUI I should look for to prove it? I just don't want to risk damaging our main virtual disk!