Build a fresh server and join it to your secondary domain controller. Sadly no there isn't a bare metal back up of this AD Domain Controller. How long does the Brackground intialization of the logical drive normally take? Minutes at most. Never seen it be more than maybe 45 seconds on normal arrays. I've got some really big arrays, like 16 drives, they can be like 2 minutes. There isn't a chance that the "Background Initializing of the Logical Drive" will fix the issue is there?
As per SAM: It may be doing a background resilver, and that may take 10 hours, but the initialization itself would only take minutes. In this case, examining the array to make sure that the sectors and parity match.
Or if it failed one of the drives, rebuilding from the distributed parity. A lot of people call rebuilding a parity array RAID 5 or 6 after a drive has failed a "resilver". This is where the remaining drives are read, sector by sector, and the missing sector from the failed drive is calculated, then written to the replaced drive.
It is not a fast process as it is intensive on the disks and intensive on the processor the RAID processor. So in a really large array, say of 24 3TB SATA drives in RAID 5, it is not unheard of for a busy server to be estimated to take over a month to resilver which is a bit of a problem because you have no protection while the resilver is going on. Even with really large and slow disks it should have been able to initialize and resilver completely by this point.
With all the time and effort you've put into this, you could have done a completely fresh installation from CD, dcpromo'd and been enjoying your weekend. If you've got the means, you've got a good chance here to replace those disks with slightly larger drives, raid10 the mess and get rid of the raid5 headache. Sorry for the late response. Yes I have installed a fresh copy of the OS. I have DC promo'ed it and am currently installing the printers. I am also trying to restore all of the my documents and shared files yes here at the Y our DC are our branch file servers, and branch print servers.
It is a long weekend lol. Hopefully you were able to reconfigure away from RAID 5 before rebuilding to likely protect yourself in the future? Windows Server TechCenter. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums.
Answered by:. Archived Forums. I have set up a single virtual disk on the controller using RAID 5 and installed windows onto a 30Gb partition. Many thanks in advance for your replies and advice. As the server has hardware raid the underlying layout of the raid array is hidden to windows.
As far as the OS is concerned, you have one big disk. The raid controller looks after writing the data across the disks windows just thinks it's got a huge disk available to it. Originally Posted by dhicks.
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