Hi,If a drive dies and you replace it, it should rebuild without the need to set it as a hot spare. If the controller dies, the RAID information is stored on the drives and they would show up as a foreign configuration or a replacement controller and that could be imported and used.
Hi, I'm new to PowerEdges. Looking for a little direction in case we ever run into hard drive issues. We are getting a couple of 2950 III servers that will be running ESXi 6 and hosting a number of VMs. I plan to create RAID 1 or 5 arrays. Lets say that a drive in the array dies, is recovery is easy as installing a new drive and setting it as a hot spare? The other big question is, what happens if one of the PERC 6/I cards die and I have to replace the card or I move the drives to the other server. How would I go about safely recreating the RAID configuration for the drives WITHOUT losing data? This is the one that I am most worried about, and I can't seem to find a real answer to online. I know that RAID should never be used as a substitute for proper backups, but if it is possible to recreate the array with all data intact, that would be amazing. Thanks!
PE 2950 + PERC 6/I and RAID recovery