I'm running Server 2012 Essentials, and have a storage pool with 4 2TB drives. Unfortunately, I had two of the drives fail on me at the same time. If I run Get-PhysicalDisk in Powershell, I get this:
FriendlyName CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size
------------ ------- ---------------- ------------ ----- ----
ST2000DM001-1... False OK Healthy Auto-Select 1.82 TB
ST2000DM001-1... False OK Healthy Auto-Select 1.82 TB
PhysicalDisk0 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 931.51 GB
PhysicalDisk3 True OK Healthy Auto-Select 1.82 TB
ST32000542AS ... False Lost Communic... Warning Auto-Select 1.82 TB
ST32000542AS ... False Lost Communic... Warning Auto-Select 1.82 TB
Get-StoragePool returns this:
FriendlyName OperationalStatus HealthStatus IsPrimordial IsReadOnly
------------ ----------------- ------------ ------------ ----------
Primordial OK Healthy True False
Storage pool Read-only Unhealthy False False
I get the configuration of the pack is offline error whenever I try to add a new drive, remove one of the failed drives, or any other changes to the storage pool. I'm trying to add the new drive PhysicalDisk3 to the pool and to get the pool back online, but it's not letting me do anything. I tried setting the IsReadOnly flag to false, but that didn't help any; the operational status is still Read-Only. If I go into Server Manager -> File and Storage Services -> Storage Pools and right click on the offline pool, there's no option to set it as Read-Write.
From what I can tell, the majority of the usage from the virtual disks is on the two working disks, and I'd like to get as much of that data back as possible. I have online backup, but unfortunately the initial backup had not finished when the drives failed. Any suggestions on how I can get Windows to let me edit the storage pool, or how to get the pack online?
Thanks.