After deleting the virtual disks I was able to create a new virtual disk and initialize it. It looks like I will just have to build the virtual disks from scratch. Thank you for your time.
I have a powervault MD1000 (raid storage array) attached to a backup server. It is set up with 3 virtual disks that each use 2 terrabytes of storage in RAID 5 from our array of 8 physical disks. I had to replace two of the physical drives, and I need to initialize my virtual disks. In the Perc 6/E VD management screen I can select the virtual disks (which show as red), and press F2 to bring up the operations screen, but the initialize button is grayed out and I cannot select it. In the PD management screen, the new drives show as ready. How do I initialize my virtual disks? Do I need to delete them and recreate new virtual disks? This is my first time doing this, so please bear with me. Any help would be appreciated. I just updated the Perc 6e firmware to version 6.3.3-0002 which a Dell support rep recommended that I do, if that helps.
initializing virtual disks