Exchange Server down

[tobiasclarity]

Hi All,

 

Such a lovely Monday when you walk in knowing that the Exchange server had nosedived on Sunday!!

 

We have an engineer booked but just curious as to whether anyone has any ideas as to the likely problem. The server boots to post but then just sits there on the intel boot agent and then halts saying media not found. Now interestingly when you switch the server on you don't see any lights chasing through the HDD (nor any amber light.....just no lights at all). I suspect the main issue could be the Raid controller but i am open to ideas. Luckily our network has a great Up time so having downtime for once in a blue moon although inconvenient isn't such a horrible situation.

 

Anyway Happy Monday everyone!!!

[FN-GM]

If you had Virtual servers wouldn't be so much an issue (sorry to rub it in ha ha)

[john]

Sounds like you have sussed it either RAID Card or backplane that has the HDDs on it has failed. Do the HDDs spin that you can hear?

[Ric_]

Unless you hit the random bug my home desktop occasionally throws at me... helpfully re-ordering the hard disk boot priority order for no resaon :-\

 

(I suspect it is the RAID card though... especially if it isn't reaching the RAID card's BIOS splash thingy)

[Edu-IT]

If you had Virtual servers wouldn't be so much an issue (sorry to rub it in ha ha)

Ah, being your usual helpful self there. ;-)

[Griff]

15min logging in time for staff this morning so I sympathise with that Monday morning feeling

[tobiasclarity]

15min logging in time for staff this morning so I sympathise with that Monday morning feeling

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Yeah we have a lag issue accross the site, something else i have yet to address!!

[sukh]

Did this get sorted?

[tobiasclarity]

Did this get sorted?

 

We did yes, it did turn out to be the RAID controller in the end that had decided it would stop working after 5 years of continual use *tut* that got replaced although some miraculous motion in this whole problem meant the RAID config was lost obviously through the controller going down but also the RAID config that is stored on the HDD's had also been lost meaning we had to re-config and restore all the data stores from backup