Drive Mixup

[Judgebond]

Good morning. The company I work for has recently moved from one location to another however the HDD locations within our HPE Proliant dl380 gen 10 was never annotated. It's currently configured for Raid 10. Is there a way to determine drive locations within a config file somewhere or is the data lost? Thanks!

[TVVJ · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Once the hard drives are removed from the server, the Smart Array controller does not hold the configuration.

If the hard drives are connected to any other HPE server of the same generation in the same drive order, then the RAID Information Sector (RIS) information on the hard drives are accessed by the Smart Array controller to which it is connected and rebuilds the array information on the controller and there would be no loss of data.

If the hard drives are inserted in any other order, then the configuration will be lost.

Regards,

[Judgebond]

Well, we powered on the device and it popped up saying there was a configuration change. Logical drives reconfigured. No action necessary then we rebooted it. When it powered on, everything seemed to be there and no data was missing. I'm pretty darn sure we didn't get the order of the drives right so I was looking and found something called roaming drives which I'm thinking this is configured as.

Everything worked out and no information was lost. Definitely labeling these drives just in case.

I was expecting the worst based on your response so this different outcome was wonderful. Thanks you!