I'm a Sysop trying to understand what's going on inside the datacenter. Our hosting manager tells me that the dell OSMA is reporting bad "virtual blocks" on some of our disks. From what I'm told, we are using a JBOD like configuration with the controller, where each virtual disk represents a single physical disk. No RAID striping or backups are taking place. Our data on the disks is recoverable from other hosts.
He is telling me that he would like to use the OSMA tool to reset the bad virtual blocks, and then to re-format the drives afterward. Is this a common practice? At what point to you give up on a disk, or are these drives already garbage when we first need to reset the bad virtual blocks?