topic Re: RAID5 - Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress - taking long time.. in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

RAID5 - Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress - taking long time...

RGBNetworks — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:08:10 GMT

Hi everyone.

I have a client who has a raid 5 with 3 physical disks. One of the disks just failed, and we have swapped it with a new disk. Within the Status Alerts of the Array configuration Utility we are getting the message below:

Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on Logical Drive 2 (558.7 GB, RAID 5). If background parity initialization is queued, it will start when I/O is performed on the drive. When background parity initialization completes, the performance of the logical drive will improve.

It has been there for 8 hours so far - is there anything I must do?

Please advise.

Thanks!

Chris

Re: RAID5 - Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress - taking long time..

Dennis Handly — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:40:11 GMT

What product are you asking about?

Re: RAID5 - Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress - taking long time..

RGBNetworks — Sun, 01 May 2016 10:50:57 GMT

Hi there.

Sorry. I am using the Proliant ML350 G6 with raid 5 for Data drive on an SBS 2011.

The 300 GB SAS 15k 6/Gbps disk failed so I replaced with a similar one but with 12gbps cause of stock issues and so far it completed successfully. Took a day and a half to finish.

Regards,

Chris