Failed Virtual Disk - Awaiting Initialization

What Caused the Problem?

Physical Disks have been replaced in a failed virtual disk, but the virtual disk has not yet been initialized. The Recovery Guru Details area provides specific information you will need as you follow the recovery steps.

Important Notes

The new physical disks' fault and activity indicator lights will turn on and off intermittently until the physical disks complete the spin up process.
If you attempt to initialize the disk group before the new physical disks are ready (new physical disks finish spinning up and their fault indicator lights turn off), the initialization request will return an error.
All snapshots associated with the affected disk group must be deleted before you can initialize the disk group. After you initialize the disk group, you can create new snapshots.

Recovery Steps

Note: If you have snapshot virtual disks associated with the affected disk group, these snapshot virtual disks will no longer be valid.

Delete all snapshot virtual disks associated with the affected disk group.

Select the affected disk group and then select Advanced >> Recovery >> Initialize >> Disk Group.

Result: The virtual disks associated with the affected disk group in the Logical View of the Array Management Window display an Operation in Progress icon as initialization starts. When initialization is completed, the virtual disk returns to an Optimal state.

Note: To monitor initialization progress, select the virtual disk. Then, select Virtual Disk >> Properties. Note that once the operation in progress has completed, the progress bar is no longer displayed in the Properties dialog.

If selecting Advanced >> Recovery >> Initialize >> Disk Group does not start initialization, do the following:

a	Select a replaced physical disk; then, select Advanced >> Recovery >> Fail Physical Disk to fail the physical disk
b	Wait for the physical disk to fail; then, select Advanced >> Recovery >> Revive >> Physical Disk to revive the physical disk
c	Repeat for every replaced physical disk.
d	Select the affected disk group; then, select Advanced >> Recovery >> Initialize >> Disk Group again.

Note: Make sure you save this procedure by selecting Save As because once you perform step 4 and the failure is fixed, you will not be able to access the information in steps 5 - 7 from the Recovery Guru.

Click the Recheck button to rerun the Recovery Guru. The failure should no longer appear in the Summary area. If the failure appears again, contact your technical support representative. Otherwise, go to step 5.

Add the re-initialized virtual disks back to the operating system. You may need to reboot the operating system to see the virtual disks.

Note: Do not start I/O to these virtual disks until after you restore from backup.

Restore the data for the re-initialized virtual disks from backup.

If desired, create any snapshots that you deleted in Step 1.