Foreign Physical Disk Has Inconsistent Role

What Caused the Problem?

A newly inserted physical disk has had its role modified and is now inconsistent with its prior role in a disk group to be imported. A physical disk can be assigned a role of Unassigned, Assigned, Standby Hot Spare or In-Use Hot Spare. The Recovery Guru Details area provides specific information you will need as you follow the recovery steps.

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Important Notes

To resolve this problem, you will need to remove the foreign physical disk, import the Contingent disk group, and then assign a local physical disk to take its place. Follow the recovery steps below to fix the problem.
Once you have completed the Recovery Steps, you will have fixed the problem for the disk group. However, if you wish to reuse the foreign physical disk, additional recovery steps might be presented.
You can remove the physical disk while the storage array is receiving I/O.

Recovery Steps

Refer to the Details area to find which physical disk slot is reporting the foreign physical disk.

Remove the foreign physical disk.

From the Support tab, click the Advanced Support Tasks link, click the Import Disk Group link, and then select the Contingent disk group.

Follow the instructions in the Import Disk Group dialog to properly import the disk group into the storage array.

Notes:

You will need to use the FORCE option since this disk group is missing a physical disk.
After the storage array completes the import process, the disk group transitions to a Partially Complete Disk Group state since it is missing a physical disk.

Important: Read all of the following steps thoroughly or click the Save As button before taking action, because you will lose access to these Recovery Steps once you click Recheck.

a	Click Recheck to rerun the Recovery Guru.
b	Select the "Partially Complete Disk Group" problem in the Summary area.
c	Complete the Recovery Steps for this problem to transition the disk group to an Optimal state. Note: Choose the option in the Recovery Steps that explains how to replace the missing physical disk using the Replace Physical Disks dialog.

Note: Additional information on this issue may be available. Please visit the Dell support website at support.dell.com and select your product model. Choose "troubleshooting" as your tool option, then search by this procedure title.