{"id":4166,"date":"2017-12-28T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T09:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2017-12-28T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T09:47:22","slug":"dell-server-importing-new-disks-raid-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2017\/12\/dell-server-importing-new-disks-raid-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Server, importing new disks into a RAID volume."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was caught flat-footed when trying to import a used disk into a mirror set.\u00a0 One of the disks in the mirror set was removed for disaster recovery trials.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Inserting the disk back did not start a re-build.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, Dell PERC marked it as foreign.\u00a0 One disk is shown as online and another rebuild. Going by the LEDs, the mirror set was not rebuilding.\u00a0 I know I need to do something, but what?<\/p>\n<p>After some Internet searching, I need to clear the foreign configuration on the used\/rebuild disk.\u00a0 Thereafter flag it as a Global HotSpare.<\/p>\n<p>Voila! rebuild starts!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordsbsguy.com\/2016\/01\/13\/dell-perc-how-to-clear-the-foreign-configuration-on-a-hdd-using-the-raid-configuration-utility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was caught flat-footed when trying to import a used disk into a mirror set.\u00a0 One of the disks in the mirror set was removed for disaster recovery trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[472,471,470,473,469],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-dell","tag-hard-disk","tag-mirror","tag-perc","tag-raid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}