Hello kindzma,   You should be able to see on the Virtual Disk properties if there is a background initialization going on. In the iDRAC web interface, go to Overview > Storage > Virtual Disks > If you expand the virtual disk there is a Progress entry that would have a percentage if an operation was ongoing on the VD.   It should also be logged in the LifeCycle Controller log, iDRAC log and a controller log. Try log into the DRAC: iDRAC > Overview > Server > Logs - choose Lifecycle Log
Hi all, Where would I go look at the RAID6 background init progress / percentage / status in iDRAC? It's an r730 with all the latest patches, iDRAC8 Express, PERC H730P Mini (Embedded) with 8x 6TB drives (ST6000NM0095 7.2K 12Gb SAS) in RAID6. OS: ESXi 7.03. Tried all the options, all the tabs in iDRAC (Storage, Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, Controllers, Enclosures, job queue) - don't see a progress indication or status. The drives are blinking fast...  So far all I was able to find was an event from 3 days ago, "Background initialization has started for Virtual Disk 0 on Integrated RAID Controller 1.": [IMAGE] P.S. I did not do any manual init - just created a virtual disk. BGI (background initialization) started on its own. P.P.S. A bit more context: "ESXi VSPhere 6.5 essential storage warning" (VMware Communities).
Background initialization progress / status?