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farrellya
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PSOD after RAID reset- ESX 3.0.0

Hi,

We encountered a hardware error with a Dell server last night which hosts ESX 3.0.0.  Investigations are ongoing with Dell as to the cause although it looks like a problem with the raid controller battery.  Anyway, a Dell Support person talked me through resetting our RAID5 array this morning as 2 of the 4 disks were offline.  We did not initialize/reformat the disks.  The RAID5 array is online again.  However, upon rebooting the server, I am presented with a PSOD as in the attached Normal boot.jpg.  When I reboot the server into Debugging mode, I am presented with the attached Debug mode.jpg.  I am not familiar with this version of ESX.  Any ideas?  This is hosting two vm's.  I do have a backup of both servers so if I have to, I can restore them to new vm's on our newer 4.1 infrastructure.  Thanks.

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weinstein5
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Welcome to the Community -  Does you ESX server boot from the RAID volume? If it does my feeling is the partitions might be corrupted and you have to restore the VMs to your other host -

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farrellya
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Yes, the ESX server boots from the RAID volume.  I suppose I better start looking at restoring them to another host unless there are any other suggestions out there?

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