I have a PE2900 with a PERC 5/i controller. On the controller are 6x disks, configured as 3x RAID-1 arrays.
One of the drives is showing a predicted fail. (Flashing green/amber).
I'm 99.9% sure that the controller supports hot-swapping the drives, so is the job of fixing this as simple as pulling out the dodgy drive, unbolting it from the caddy, bolting on a new one, and inserting the new drive back into the chassis.
Will the PERC 5/i automatically rebuild the array as soon as it sees the new drive? Or do I need to do anything? (Consistency check the drive before pulling it? Set the drive to Offline before I pull it? Anything like that?)
Sorry for what must seem like a really basic question. I just want to make sure that I don't do anything obviously wrong. Thanks tons for any advice.