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Restoring failed virtual disk on MD3000i
We have one Disk group "0" that has 5 Virtual Disks all showing failed. We had two of our 15 drives go bad and they have been replaced. The replacement drives show "Unassigned" and are not being built back into the array. I had the email for Jason S and attempted to contact him directly. He informed me that he was in training and they gave the following information.
"The disks are not rebuilding because the virtual disks are failed. The virtual disks need to be in a degraded state for the rebuild to have the parity to begin.
It is possible to force the old “Failed” disks back online but you would be best calling into dell for assistance on that."
Unfortunately our MD3000i is out of warranty and phone support will not be an option. I asked for instructions we could try following through email correspondence but have not heard anything back. Is there anything we can try through the GUI or smcli to get the virtual disks into a degraded state and the two unassigned physical disks assigned and built back into the array?