Important information

22 Important Information
Reconfiguring Your System After a Hard Drive Failure
This section provides information about reconfiguring your RAID 1
(mirrored) storage system in the event of a hard drive failure. See your
system documentation for information on hard drive failures and
replacing a failed hard drive.
Reconfiguring Mirrored Volumes
1 Launch the Disk Management utility.
2 Remove any mirrored volumes from the missing (failed) disk.
NOTE: A failed hard drive is labeled as missing in the graphical view.
3 Delete any volumes displayed in the missing disk.
4 Delete the missing disk by right-clicking the disk.
Click
Remove Disk .
5 Upgrade the new disk from basic to dynamic.
Troubleshooting Matrix
Table 1-7 provides a matrix for troubleshooting specific issues that might
occur on your PowerEdge storage server.
Table 1-7. Troubleshooting Matrix
Issue Possible Cause Resolution
I just created a new
volume on my system
but cannot see the
volume on Windows
Explorer through
Remote Desktop.
Remote Desktop
cannot update to show
a new volume during
the session in which it
was created.
Log off Remote Desktop.
When you reconnect to Remote
Desktop, the volume should be
visible.