Dell r530 built in hot spare status change description

One of the customers Dell R530 The built-in hard disk Disk 4 Turn on the fault light , It needs to be replaced . After the engineer arrives at the site , Sign in iDRAC Check the disk interface ,“ Physical disks ” The status of the disk under the label is “ Failure ”.

stay “ Virtual disk ” Under the label , Check RAID The status of the group is “ online ”. Generally speaking ,RAID When the group fails , The status of the virtual disk should be “ Downgrade ”. The capacity of the virtual disk （2791.5G） and 8 Physical disks （465.25G） Capacity is estimated ,RAID The group should be composed of 7 Physical disks RAID 5（ The actual usable capacity is 6 Capacity of physical disks ）. In addition, the virtual disk status is normal , this 8 One of the physical disks should be a hot spare , Because the hot spare disk replaces the failed disk , The state of the virtual disk is still normal . But in the picture above , Columns of physical disks “ Hot standby ” Are shown as “ no ”.

Replaced the failed disk with a new disk Disk 4, The disk begins to synchronize .

After synchronization is complete , disk disk4 The state of returned to normal , The status of the hot spare is also determined by “ online ” Change back “ be ready ”, Column “ Hot standby ” The value of is also determined by “ no ” Change back “ special ”.

summary ：
From the above picture we can see ,Dell R530 The status column of the built-in hot spare is displayed as “ be ready ”, its “ Hot standby ” The column is shown as “ special ”. When the built-in data disk fails , The hot spare will replace the failed disk , Its status column becomes “ online ”,“ Hot standby ” The column becomes “ no ”.

notes ： Because of the customer's ESXi Not installed in OMSA RAID Management software , So it didn't pass RAID Compare and confirm the display information of the management software , After the hot spare disk replaces the failed disk, the data disk and hot spare disk can still be distinguished in the management software , Find a chance to test later .