Hello,
I am trying to show my company the benefit of utilizing VMware. I recently installed ESXi 5 on an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 (service tag 2M214102KB). The server currently has 6 SAS HDDs in a RAID 1 configuration ( orginally started with 4 in RAID 1). I need to add 2 more SAS HDDs (also RAID 1), but when I do, the sever does not boot up. It hangs after multiextent loaded successfully. If I remove the the last two drives I added, the system boots fine again. The RAID card is an HP Smart Array P410i which should more than handle the addition of the two drives (which is also the same RAID card that the other 6 drives are utilizing). I have tried using two different drives thinking that one or both could be bad. The RAID status is okay Ok and Healthy.
Is there something I am missing? Here is the log that I am seeing. Can someone shed some light on this for me?