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Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:15 AM
The interface card of the server crashed. As a result one disk was marked as "unhealthy" and retired. I am now trying to remove it and then add it back to rebuid the storage pool.
I have followed the prescribed procedure several times and always received the message "Remove-PhysicalDisk : The storage pool could not complete the operation because the health or operational status of one or more virtual disks in it does not permit it."
How do I force remove the physical disk. Even when the disk was physically removed i could not remove it in power shell.
Help much appreciated.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 7:34 AM
Hi,
Please refer to this case for detailed steps, note run PowerShell as Administrator
Unable to remove failed disk error when configuring a Redundant Storage Space in Windows Server 2012 R2 by David Papkin
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Have a try
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:50 PM
Hi
I tried this. Unfortunately it does not work. The repair-virtualdisk command completes, but does not appear to run (get-storagejob shows no activity, which is highly unlikely since there are close to 2TB on the array).
Any idea what to do.
Many thanks and best regards
Friday, October 27, 2017 6:17 AM
The issue you are experiencing is: can not remove a broken disk from storage pool. If I have misunderstood your concern, please don't hesitate to let me know.
Would you please run the following commands and post the result?
1. Get-PhysicalDisk
2. Get-VirtualDisk
Based on my experience, before performing the operations, we need to attach another physical disk, its size should not be smaller than the broken one.
Then try to repair virtual disk and remove the retired disk.
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Sunday, October 29, 2017 10:23 AM
Hi
I ordered a new disk (all disk I have in spare to small) and will try again once I have it installed.
Here are the result of the commands.
FriendlyName SerialNumber MediaType CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SSD False OK Healthy Auto-Select 232.89 GB
WDC-WD10EAVS-00D7B1-B WD-xxxxxxxxx Unspecified False OK Healthy Auto-Select 930.75 GB
WDC-WD10EAVS-00D7B1-A Unspecified False Lost Communication Warning Retired 930.75 GB
FriendlyName Usage MediaType ResiliencySettingName PhysicalDiskRedundancy OperationalStatus HealthStatus IsManualAttach Size FootprintOnPool StorageEfficiency
Storage1 Data Unspecified Mirror 1 {Degraded, Incomplete} Warning False 930 GB 1.49 TB 60,84 %
The funny thing is that the disk is not broken. The system got a hickup after the interface card crashed, So if there is a way to recover the disk - happy to know. I tried set "...-usage auto" and the "repair-virtualdisk...", which did not work.
Many thanks
Monday, October 30, 2017 8:11 AM
I have seen a similar case, the mirrored virtual disk got repaired after plug-in a new disk. And the retired disk got removed successfully after that.
Once you got any updates after getting the new disk, please feel free to post the result and we will continue to help you.
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