MSA500 trouble extending logical drives.

[Dan Morris]

I am running:

2 X Proliant DL380 G4

on an MSA500.

The problem I have is that whenever I try to extend a logical drive within the Array Configuration Utility 7.50.23.0. The process starts and sits there forever.

The Logical drive I am trying to extend sits there with a small blue clock on the Icon. The logical drive below this also has this blue clock.

There is no impact on performance on the Array or servers.

I have tried to do this with extending a drive by large amounts and by small amounts (10MB) but still no sucess.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Dan Morris]

Forgot to add the status message that appears when clicking the yellow 'Status messages' button.

'Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on logical drive 8 (RAID 5 in array A). 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.