We have a T110 running RAID5 with 3 drives. For whatever reason, one of the drives died and I am running a degraded array. The HUGE problem I have, after speaking with elevated tech support, is that the S300 controller does NOT support a rebuild from within its BIOS. It can ONLY be done through Dell Open Manage. However, the system we are running is a custom PoS install and it has some issues that prevent Open Manage from launching. Is there ANY way to rebuild the array with a new drive in the BIOS w/o using Open Manage? Or alternatively, can anyone help me get OpenManage to launch properly? Spent an hour w/ Dell Tech Support and they failed to get it to work. Being close to 1 a.m., I told them I would call them back in a day to see if I make progress.
Issue 1: Unable to launch Open Manage Admin
Description: When laughing OMA, it launches web browser (Tried both FF and IE), and https://server:1311 will not load (page not found). Changing "server" to the actual IP of the server yields the same problem. They did all kinds of stuff to the security settings but could not get it to launch.
Issue 2: Unable to rebuild within PERC S300 BIOS
Description: I do not see a rebuild menu item in the BIOS. Would it be appropriate to simply select "add hot global spare" and then select the new drive as such and let it reboot and see if it rebuilds? Or would that only cause the 2 remaining drives to rebuild to that if 1 of the remaining 2 die?
Probably Solution?
Description: Is there ANY software out there that I can use to image the existing Windows 2K3 RAID5 setup onto an external HD, re-setup the RAID5 in the server, and image it back?