Tony Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 As of January 18th 2008 12:36am we're seeing the raid array of Venus is currently degraded. We believe this is the result of a drive failure within the raid array. We are currently investigating further with technicians on site and are preparing to swap out a drive if necessary. This topic will be updated as this window continues. At this point in time we have no information about how long this may take. As of this moment the server is operating fine, however with a higher load due to the missing drive. If there is any down time required to swap out the drive we will of course posting an update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 We will be replacing the drive between 3am EST and 5am EST this morning. We do not expect any down time, however if we do need to take the box off line it will not be for an extended amount of time. This is completely necessary as if another drive was to fail there would be a possibility of data loss. So based on that we want to get a new drive in and rebuild the array so that the risk of data loss is gone due to drive failures. Along with that the performance of server is slightly degraded with a drive missing. We will update the ticket again when we have more information on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 The drive has been replaced and we are now rebuilding the array which will be done in the background and will not be noticeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 It is currently 65% rebuilt. We're hoping a few more hours and the array will be finished rebuilding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 I forgot to update this but the raid was rebuilt fine. We did not experience any down time during the drive failure or the replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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