- Jan 13, 2013
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Hi all,
My wife and I have been volunteerting at the local church and one of the charities that it supports. Anyway, I have been helping them with some web development and some pc support but have a question about their one (and only!) server.
They managed to procure a second-hand HP Proliant DL380 G4 a couple of years ago, which works well. I was in today and was having a look and noticed that one of the drives has an amber/red light on the third led which means the drive has failed (if I am correct). On looking around, they managed to procure 2 extra SCSI drives for the server (not attached, still boxed) and I was planning on 'hot-swapping' it today for them but have a couple of questions.
From the documents that the engineer who set it up wrote up, it seems that the 2 attached drives are in a RAID (I'm guessing RAID 1). Am I correct in thinking that I can simply hot-swap the drives and the RAID array software will start rebuilding the drive ? If so, am I correct in thinking that it's best to do this with the system up and running as if I shut the machine down, change it and then try and boot the RAID software will get confused and it won't boot ?
I should also say that the server is running Linux, and my knowledge of Linux doesn't extend to server rebuilds!
Thanks for any help. Kind regards.
Paul
My wife and I have been volunteerting at the local church and one of the charities that it supports. Anyway, I have been helping them with some web development and some pc support but have a question about their one (and only!) server.
They managed to procure a second-hand HP Proliant DL380 G4 a couple of years ago, which works well. I was in today and was having a look and noticed that one of the drives has an amber/red light on the third led which means the drive has failed (if I am correct). On looking around, they managed to procure 2 extra SCSI drives for the server (not attached, still boxed) and I was planning on 'hot-swapping' it today for them but have a couple of questions.
From the documents that the engineer who set it up wrote up, it seems that the 2 attached drives are in a RAID (I'm guessing RAID 1). Am I correct in thinking that I can simply hot-swap the drives and the RAID array software will start rebuilding the drive ? If so, am I correct in thinking that it's best to do this with the system up and running as if I shut the machine down, change it and then try and boot the RAID software will get confused and it won't boot ?
I should also say that the server is running Linux, and my knowledge of Linux doesn't extend to server rebuilds!
Thanks for any help. Kind regards.
Paul
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