I had 3 hard drives in this server. The controller read that disk 0:0 was READY (not online) and there were 2 Virtual Disks. (One was my VD and the other was a mysterious non-RAID VD that I assume was created because disk 0:0 was in a Ready state)
My main VD was listed as degraded.
To be safe since I was not sure what disk 0:0 was up to, I put a 4th hard drive in and assigned it as Global Hot Spare and it went through a rebuild. Once finished, now my VD has physical disks 0:1, 0:2, 0:3 stating all online, but the VD still says FAILED. Physical Disk 0:3 (the new one) looks to be part of the group but it is still listed as a global spare?
I am at a loss here how to get the VD back to good.
Best Answer
It sounds like disk 0:0 failed to begin with, leaving it no longer showing as an active member of the RAID5 VD. The S100 seems to be a bit quirky as to how it handles drive failures and the labeling of previously-failed drives, so confusion over situations like this isn't uncommon.
If you have another replacement hard drive available, I'd recommend swapping it with disk 0:0. I'm not certain whether the S100 will copy data back to slot 0 from the global spare slot or not - if it doesn't, you may need to try to find an option to make the spare the new permanent replacement drive (possibly an option in OMSA - unsure whether the operation will be supported with the S100).