We have a MD3000i with a 1000 enclosure in a SAN for 3 ESXi server cluster. We populated the last 6 slots with drives from an authorized Dell reseller and 2 drives show up as bypassed and the other 4 show up as Loss of path redundancy.
After much back and forth with the provider, they have decided we should send these disks back and they will get 6 new disks.
My question is, I have not assigned any of these drives to a DG or VD (even though the loss of redundancy drives were visible to the management console). Can I safely remove the six drives (3 in the MD3000i and 3 in the MD1000) without powering down the ESXi servers and SAN? Or is there some process in the MDSM or MDCLI that needs to be done first.
THanks
Don