Yes I meant DL, anyhow I got a new drive pulled the old one and hot-swapped the new drive it rebuilt in less than 1 hour, back up with no problems, thanks for all the suggestions.
Stefan On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Louis, Joe <[email protected]>wrote: > Did you mean DL instead of GL? I’ve been using DL 380s since G1. Most of > the Proliants are similar. Cant say that I’ve ever seen one where the RAID > 0+1 is in a box that doesn’t support hot swappable drives. It “should” be as > simple as pulling the one going bad and putting the new one in. You > shouldn’t have to bother with Smartstart. On Proliants, most of the > Hot-swappable parts have purple handles. > > > > The HP Array control software would tell you exactly how it is configured > and you can make your decision from there. If Insight says that the drive is > going bad, it should already have marked it as such and the drive would have > a red fault light on. If so, it would already be offline. The Windows event > log will show degrading status entries. > > > > They are really good about those kinds of things and hyper sensitive for > good reason. It might just need to be reseated. I’ve used drives for years > after first identified with an alert. > > > > *From:* Glen Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:32 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0) > > > > Me thinks those are most likely hot swap drives. > > Make sure you’ve got a good backup, pull the failing drive, put new one in > and the raid controller should automatically rebuild. > > No down time. > > > > *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:27 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Replacing drive in Raid 1 (+ 0) > > > > I have an HP GL380 G5 server with 2 drives for the OS, it's now telling me > that drive 1 is about to fail! 2 months after the end of Warranty! > > I'm ordering a new drive but how do I replace it? Do I have to shut down > and start with SmartStart go to ACU and split the Array or do I simply shut > down replace the drive and re-start? > > - > > - > Stefan Jafs > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
