Hi, I just wanted to tell you I solved my problem (and yes, without reboot) iDrac wont allow you to create the VD inless the disks are all green (mine were foreign), But you can do this: ./perccli /c0 add vd type=raid10 drives=32:4-7 strip=128 And even though, iDrac wont permit it and the disks are not in ready state... it still works... after this command, second VD was created, all disks were green out of the blue and all works as expected - PROBLEM SOLVED Iam not going to ask the question why I cannot do this in iDrac, when the raid controller clearly is capable of this. Iam also not going to ask why iDrac reported the disks as foreign even though the controller through perccli said "unconfigured good" or why DELL person could not give me this advice. I just hope this answer helps somebody else :-)
Hi, We have dell R530 server with PERC H730 Mini. We already have one RAID 10 configured and now, we added 4 new disks and want to create second RAID 10. The disks were previously in some completely different servers also in RAID. The iDrac shows the state of the disks as Foreign, when I do ./perccli /c0 show I get their status as "UGood" I read something about clearing foreign configuration from controller, but when I do ./perccli /c0/fall show all I get "Couldnt find any foreign conviguration I erased the disks using ./perccli /c0/e32/s4 start erase which completed successfully, but if i try to "set state good" "set state online" "start rebuild" or "start initialization" I always get "255 Operation not allowed" The Operating system is ESXi 6.0, so I can work with perccli and iDrac, but I cannot reboot the server to access the other tools. Please help, thank you very much
Clear foreign state of HDDs in PERC H730 Mini WITHOUT REBOOT