upgrading to a H710p fixed the issue, i can only guess the raid controller was faulty
i've had a raid0 setup on my R720XD with a PERC H710 for a few weeks, 5 drives, 1tb per slot, i bought another 2 drives (also 1tb, all SAS) and i read online you can add drives to a virtual disk, i did plenty research and it seemed like it was pretty straightforward, but i put the disks in, rebooted, F2, device settings so on, "add virtual disks" on the vd, selected the 2 new ones, ok, press start operation and... it froze... it's been frozen for a while, the disks aren't flashing, nothing seems to be happening, it is responding to ssh/racadm, i'm worried for my data, i do not have backup (i'm buying drives each month, haven't gotten enough to have a backup yet), idk what to do, do i just wait? my whole network is down while this is happening, do i reboot? is there some way i can see any form of progress? is this normal? it was my understanding the OS could boot while the vd was reconfiguring, but rebooting causes the vd to become foreign, stated as 5tb vd with all 7 drives associated, i have to retag back to the original 5 drives to get it to boot again - there is a fault in this function, it is broken.has anyone seen this before?
bios frozen reconfiguring virtual disk r720XD H710