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September 27th, 2022 15:00
RAID5 Rebuild Issues on Debian -> Proxmox on PowerEdge R710
Hey fam,
Title says a lot. Have a R710 with all drives in a raid 5 running Proxmox which is debian based.
1 drive has failed. And based on my research and attempts thus far, the bios are unable to rebuild the raid with the new drive on their own. I need openmanage for that. Looks like openmanage is not supported on debian though. So I'm thinking the best course might be to create a boot thumb drive with it on there. I'm looking for suggestions for building such a thing. Has anyone created an iso for this already? Should I just throw an ubuntu live on there and install OM in place? Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
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DELL-Young E
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September 27th, 2022 20:00
Hi, please refer to this https://dell.to/3RkI5Sq
DELL-Shine K
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September 27th, 2022 20:00
What storage controller you have on the server? Is the replaced drive is of same family and type of existing failed drive and have capacity same or above of current drive? If rebuild is not started after replacing the drive you can assign new drive as hot spare to the virtual disk which will initiate the rebuild.
Dellianed
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October 4th, 2022 17:00
Yes, same type (spinning platters), same capacity, same speed. When I put the drive in nothing happened. I used the bios to try setting it as a hot spare but that isnt causing it to pick it up and use it.
Controller is a PERC6I-INTG
DELL-Young E
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October 4th, 2022 20:00
https://dell.to/3rvXvIV
Hi, could you please check out at 1:12 in the video where the PD (physical disk) status is showing? That may help. Wish you a good one.
Dellianed
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October 7th, 2022 13:00
I found the Dell Support Live Image for my server -- created a boot thumb drive and managed to start openmanage from there. It wont let me use this drive to replace the bad one in the raid but I cant figure out why -- the ONLY difference I see in the drives already in the raid (top) and the new one (bottom) is the bus protocol.
I'll take any tips you guys have. Thanks!
Dellianed
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October 7th, 2022 14:00
That's it isnt it... I cant add a sata drive to an array with sas drives already in it can I?
F!
These sas drives seem to be harder to find.
DELL-Erman O
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October 9th, 2022 23:00
Hi, I also would suggest selecting hot spare on BIOS but you already tried that one too. As far as I can see in the image you shared above, the certified part says no. So it comes to my mind that it might have something to do with it being non-certified. the problem may be because of this.