Hi!
I have a Dell PowerEdge R710 Server with 4 x SAS 146GB 15kprm disks originally configured as a RAID5 array trough the PERC 6/i integrated controller then mounting VMware ESXi 5.1.0 799733.
Some weeks ago the disk in tray 1 stated a fault status, so I bought two new disks Seagate ST3146356SS (the same as the ones mounted, one for changing the broken one and the other for future spare) and hot swapped the one in fault. I don't know why but it doesn't seem to work (the LED is still orange, while the others trays are green, while the LCD display states: System Software event: Drive Slot sensor, drive fault was asserted).
I also successfully installed the Dell Open Manage VIM 7.4.0-876 in VMware and trough another OpenManage Server Administrator installed in a Windows 2012 Server virtual machine connecting to the VMware host IP address I can manage it.
Now the question is: why the Open Manage shows me everything is ok (green mark) except from the firmware version while the LCD display continues bugging me about the drive 1 fault? Why the new disk doesn't appear in the Physical Disks inside the Enclosure Backplane but in a Physical Disks external container with a different LUN ID in the name (I also post a screenshot about this; "Sistema" is the name of the RAID5 array)? Is everything really ok, I mean: the RAID has been rebuilt so there is a fault tolerance once again and I now can sleep peacefully or not?
Thank you in advance!
Paolo Caviasca
