Hi,
I have a Dell PowerEdge R520 with controller PERC H710 Mini, running esxi v5
it has a RAID 5, 4 600GB SAS 15k Disks
Disk 2 (0-3) has failed and i replaced it with 2TB SATA disk (the only one i had)
The disk shows as ready.
I restarted the server and entered the controller menu to set it as a global hotspare (the only option available)
Then it showed the following warning : "warning none of the existing VD's will be covered by this hotspare"
I tried to set it anyway, after doing so, in the VD menu, it was added to the RAID as hotspare, but was marked as red and showed as : global unusable affinity
Any clues to what the problem is?
How can i rebuild the RAID?
Thanks.