Our perc 5i with a raid 1 configuration in a pe2900 had a virtual drive degraded. Launching the lsi software raid configuration utility to launch the lsi software raid configuration utility. Dell poweredge raid controller perc h310, h710, h710p, and. I bought a system from a guy, and it was in this state. First, a foreign configuration usually refers to a raid configuration that already exists on a replacement set of drives that you install in a computer system. Clear foreign state of hdds in perc h730 mini without reboot. Intel raid software user guide 3 document revision history date revision changes july 2017 1. On the other hand, if the foreign configuration contains only one physical disk that was originally configured as a raid 5 using three physical disks, then the raid 5 virtual disk. Clear should be used whenever the array is online and only a single disk is marked foreign or multiple disks in the event it is a raid 105060 but the array is still online. Ready to be used either in a raid array or as a hotspare etc foreign. Changed the sata and power cable on one drive an poof it was back online, only in foreign disk mode under disk manager.
Dell perc 5i raid foreign state solutions experts exchange. At this point, msm will scan drives on the controller and say how many foreign drives it found. In omsa, go to storage, perc, informationconfiguration link at top of. Intel raid software user guide for full featured and entry. In order to import the foreign raid configuration and activate the raid array with the new raid controller. When the power came back on, the dell perc 6i raid controller card reported two errors. You can do this in omsa, storage, perc, informationconfiguration, foreign clear from the dropdown menu of available tasks for the controller. Fixing a drive labeled foreign by a lsi avago sas controller. After the drive is in ready state from clearing the foreign meta data how can. Oct 19, 2009 that will happen if you replaced the failed drive with a clean one, it seems the one you inserted had a foreign configuration. The raid controller utility shows all four drives in a foreign state. Lsi megaraid megaraid foreign arrays lsi irit 1, 2, soon 3 adaptec series 678 onboard drives pch linux software raid mdraid usb storage devices. After the foreign configuration is cleared, the hard drive changes to unconfigured good state. Not sure if the drive was bad or not, we got a used replacement drive, hotswapped it and it also has a foreign state.
Now that the automated rebuild is not working, you need to configure a hot spare to rebuild your raid 1 volume. A caution indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. How to clear a foreign disk config on a power edge r320 dell. You must address any foreign configuration before the controller will let. Dell poweredge boot optimized storage solution boss boss offers the following features to streamline os and data storage management. Since the server have just been purchased and i am new to the raid configuration and monitoring, i am trying to test for raid 1. The dell poweredge raid controller perc h310, h710, h710p, and h810 family of storage controller cards has the following characteristics. Installing dell sas raid storage manager on microsoft windows. Dell poweredge raid controller perc h700 and h800 users guide perc7. Dell sas raid storage manager is preinstalled on your dell system. In order to import the foreign raid configuration and.
The rebuild did not start, but the physical disk now is in a ready state. To be sure no bug happen when you will issue the command. Use the arrow keys to navigate to the lsi megaraid configuration utility menu option, and press enter. Now you can ask the controller to scan for foreign configurations and remove them. I have replaced a raid5 disk with a spare disk that already has a foreign config on it. The important is to be sure your raid is ok too, as if one of your disk fall into foreign state for a unknown reason, the clear foreign would clear it too. Clearing foreign configuration using virtual disk management.
I upgraded to windows 7 64 bit home premium from a xp installation with two hard disks. Replacing an lsi raid card with a preconfigured raid. Press f2 during the boot process, when prompted, to launch the bios setup utility, and then use the right arrow key to navigate to the advanced menu. For example, if the foreign configuration contains only one side of a mirror in a raid 1 virtual disk, then the virtual disk is in degraded state and can be imported. If you are using older dell poweredge servers that has a different raid controller than perc h700 refer to. Curious if dell was just ripping us off for our enterprise sas ssds, we also did a test build on a dell r720xd with a perc h710p 1gb nv and fifteen samsung 840 pro ssds in raid6 in mid20. For more information, see the dell openmanage storage management users guide. You cant do anything with a disk in a foreign state. Contentconfirm the disk is reporting as foreign by identifying the disk state. There are 1 foreign configurations on controller 0. How to replace missingfailed hard drive in raid 10 without.
Another drive was reported as having a foreign configuration. Ssd raid load testing results from a dell poweredge r720. Dell poweredge raid controller perc setup tutorial. Dell poweredge boot optimized storage solution boss. How to clear the foreign configuration on a hdd using the raid configuration utility 4 replies i had a disk failure in a dell poweredge r710 server recently and as the server itself is due to be decomissioned soon and we have a few spare hdds available of the. The controller detected a configuration on the drive that did not match the. This means a drive is already a part of a raid array ready. From the menu options that are displayed, use the arrow keys to navigate to the drive. If you were bringing over two drives in raid 1, and wanted to keep the raid 1 array intact, using import would be a good option.
Perc 5i all four drives in foreign state dell community. Hi, i just replaced the faulty hdd on our pe 2950 server running server 2003 r2 but it says foreign state status on the openmanage server. In this dell server recovery scenario, the clients server fell victim to a power outage. After the foreign configuration is imported, the hard drive changes to online state. Here are the steps to rebuild the raid array on a dell poweredge. If it were the other disk in the raid 1, then the hotspare would have rebuilt into the array to take the spot of the foreign disk when it went offline. That will happen if you replaced the failed drive with a clean one, it seems the one you inserted had a foreign configuration. Chances are but there is no guarantee that disks 0 and 1 were in the mirror and disk 2 is the hs unless it was set up differently or a disk had already failed at some point. Raid redundant array of inexpensive disks or drives, or redundant array of independent disks is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both. This article lists steps on how to resolve the condition where one or more disks report as foreign. How to reset a disk marked foreign on dell perc 710p. Clear foreign state of hdds in perc h730 mini without. All the new dell poweredge servers for example, dell poweredge r610, dell poweredge r710, etc.
The dell perc raid configuration bios will mark an array as foreign under the following circumstances. Sep 03, 2010 now you can ask the controller to scan for foreign configurations and remove them. Chances are but there is no guarantee that disks 0 and 1 were in the mirror and disk 2 is the hs unless it was set up differently or a. We can also see that there is a foreign raid configuration detected by the raid controller. How to replace missingfailed hard drive in raid 10. If communication is lost during certain io operations, the raid software can mark a faulty drive absent instead of failing it. In the computer management disk management, it is shown as a dynamic foreign disk with no other information.
This means the drive contains some raid metadata coming from an old raid array the disk used to be a part of. In your situation wiping out and starting over with new vd, you want to clear the foreign configuration. If you need to reinstall dell sas raid storage manager for some reason, this section explains how to do this on the supported operating systems. This is an sql server that has our primary app on it. If on an intel motherboard, you have to install the intel matrix storage manager software in windows and you can right click on the corresponding array and verify it, which can take a long time depending on the size of the array, number of drives, etc. Dell poweredge raid controllers part 4 how to break and rebuild a dell prec raid 5 array. It seemed fine for a few weeks, but then dropped multiple ssds and failed the array after running for around 2 weeks as a cluster machine serving around. A disk in foreign state indicates the disk contains valid data domain file system data and is intended to alert to the presence of this data to make sure it is. Megaraid utility may display a failed to import foreign. A note indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. Restoring a hard drive in frnbad state huawei v5 server. However, a foreign configuration could also occur when the intel raid controller is replaced. Trying to install additional drives into my r730 dell poweredge none have failed, just need more space inserted the disks and they all show as status foreign and the only option available is blink or unblink some sources refer to clear foreign config but i cant see that as an option.
Dell couldnt explain to me why it happened or what caused it but it happens far too often. For details, see importing or clearing a foreign configuration. Dell emc poweredge raid controller cli reference guide. If it doesnt start rebuilding automatically, then assign the ready disk as a hotspare. Supports dellqualified serialattached scsi sas hard drives, sata hard drives, and solidstate drives ssds. Jun 09, 20 an in depth tutorial and explanation of the dell poweredge raid controllers from used in the poweredge line of servers. May 26, 2016 in a dell poweredge r710 server, we could use blank hdd so no data in it to replace a failed raid hdd. Aug 20, 20 curious if dell was just ripping us off for our enterprise sas ssds, we also did a test build on a dell r720xd with a perc h710p 1gb nv and fifteen samsung 840 pro ssds in raid 6 in mid20. How to clear the foreign configuration on a hdd using the raid configuration utility 4 replies i had a disk failure in a dell poweredge r710 server recently and as the server itself is due to be decomissioned soon and we have a few spare hdds available of the correct type, we decided to use one of them. Lsi megaraid megaraid foreign arrays lsi irit 1, 2, soon 3 adaptec series 678 onboard drives pch linux software raid mdraid usb storage devices lsiadaptec bbu and supercaps most info derived from lsusb linux kernel. This was in contrast to the previous concept of highly reliable mainframe disk drives referred to as. If drives are foreign after a chassis swap, do not run disk unfail on any of the disks as this can cause data loss.
The foreign state is normal after a chassis swap where the head swap was done in the system. Perc 6i foreign state drive jump to solution i am not here after hours and i dont mind doing it through the drac but was hoping to be able to do it while i was onsite. Per dell server administrator a drive had a foreign state. An in depth tutorial and explanation of the dell poweredge raid controllers from used in the poweredge line of servers. Dell poweredge raid controller perc h310, h710, h710p. The disk should now be available for rebuilding into your new raid array. Learn more about software and hardware raid volumes akitio. Fast initialization foreign import smart info autorebuild nonraid migration trim nonraid pd.
These controllers are very useful and easy to set up. One day you walk in and the system all of a sudden thinks the drives are foreign. May 14, 2014 the dell perc raid configuration bios will mark an array as foreign under the following circumstances. We had a harddrive crash on one of our dell poweredge servers this week.
Perc h710 disk state foreign simply remove the drive while on and running, wait 3060 seconds, then insert the replacement. Resolving data domain foreign disk drives and how to. Resolving data domain foreign disk drives and how to unfail a. Dd os raid software monitors the performance of disk drives in the system. Fixing a raid 5 degraded array after a failed disk raid 5. If multiple drives are in an absent state the issue could be due to raid discovery or a faulty controller. To monitor the battery status of the raid controller, use raid battery status dell. Normally just importing the foreign drives does the trick, it did for me. Replacing an lsi raid card with a preconfigured raid array. To monitor the battery status of the raid controller, use raid battery status dell basic service information.
Raid status dell the raid status dell service monitors the state of the raid controller only to monitor the firmware version, use raid controller firmware dell. Raid 0 data partion, software raid under windows 10, dont ask why raid 0. Do this in ctrlr, on the vd mgmt screen, highlight the controller upperleft, f2, foreign, clear. How can i erase the foreign state and have it rebuild the raid 1. With two drives unrecognized, the raid5 array was unable to function. Here is some details about the dell terminology you may encounter in the physical disk state section online.
Perc 6i foreign config on disk how to clear a disk dell. In this video, we will cover the process of clearing the foreign configuration using virtual. Was trying to configure automated sleep and wakeup times and during this configuration the raid 0 crashed. I thought when a drive which is part of a raid array failed and was replaced or reseated. The entire array has been moved across from another server and therefore the raid card has no knowledge of the array there has been a glitch on the raid card and the configuration has lost details of the existing. Jun 26, 2019 a redundant array of independent disks raid can be used to improve the io performance and therefore offer faster transfer rates, mirror the data for redundancy in case of a disk failure or combine the storage capacity of multiple disks to create one large volume. The result is that i now cannot read the second disk although it appears in the bios setup. This reference is from appendix b of the corresponding intel raid software user guide.