Replacement of 1064 LSI RAID

Good afternoon!

We had a brief problem with a RAID 10 that contains the ESXi installation on one of our servers C210 M2.  VMware has "lost" the volume of ESXi.  A restart of the host brought the RAID online, but management had me buy a spare mezzanine on the tray card.  We tested it during an upgrade to ESXi and the card did not react as expected.  We relied on this document to help us replace the RAID.

When we put the map on the server, we expect the card to show and to ask questions about a foreign configuration.  The documentation says that when we saw that to apply the card to import the configuration and to present the RAID set to the operating system.  Card claimed instead it is 'inactive' and verify the configuration by pressing Control-C.  We did it, but since we were on a schedule to upgrade reinsert us the old card RAID, hit the string initialization and then with the upgrade.

The map has been identified by the server and had an update of the firmware to the revision of the 1.4(3x), so I don't think that the card is DOA - I think missing a step or to look for a different document for this card.

My question is about the answer when this card is replaced.  That we will be able to replace the mezzanine card and restore the RAID configuration or do we need to plan to rebuild the RAID config in case of failure of the card?  If we replace and restore what step is missing to import safe RAID configuration so that the mirror breaking and BONE don't freak?

Thanks for all the research!

Gregg

Hey Gregg,.

I checked for some cases of TAC with the same error that your report server, and for all cases, replace the controller raid solved the problem.   I recommend you to prosecute with TAC to review the papers or see if you can get the card replaced.

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