Need Help With Raid!

[Cixos]

Hello Folks..i am in need of your experience in this annoying incident that seem to be happening

System

Brand: DellPowerEdge R710

CPU: Xeon CPU X5550 2.67GH

Memory: 32 GB

Raid Card : Dell PowerEdge PERC 6/i SAS RAID Controller Card PCI-E T954J (with Battery)

Hardrive: 6 x 2TB (12TB in total) but using Raid 10 so 6TB for use

OS : EXSI 5.5
Virtual Servers : 5 VM

Problem:

On Configuration Tab and in Health Status I get an alert for the hard drives, that says (see attach Picture)

Disk Drive Bay 1 Drive 1: In Critical Array - Assert

Disk Drive Bay 1 Drive 2: In Critical Array - Assert

Disk Drive Bay 1 Drive 3: In Critical Array - Assert

Disk Drive Bay 1 Drive 4: In Critical Array - Assert

Disk Drive Bay 1 Drive 5: In Critical Array - Assert

Except for Drive 0

I immediately went to check the physical hard drives by the server and they were all nice and pretty with their green beautiful LED,

for some reason i decided to do hot swapping for drive 5 and then no too long after warning came up (see attach Picture)

Disk Drive Bay 1 Drive 5: Rebuild in Progress - Assert

Any help will be greatly apprcieated

Thanks

[cykVM]

Hi,

it's pretty unlikely (though not impossible) that all your disks went down at the same time. The screenshot you attached is nothing critical, the controller is just performing a rebuild because you swapped a drive.

After that is finished I would look at DELL support pages for any BIOS/firmware updates for the server, controller and further addon-cards (e.g. DRAC).

cykVM

[Cixos]

Just like you said...i no longer get the warning for disk 5...it seems that it finish rebuilding ...i will do as you advised and do some firmware update...

Cixos

[cykVM]

You may also look for updates on the VMWare driver for the PERC 6/i and probably the CIM provider for the PERC.