All,

I have a Dell PowerEdge R630 with a Perc H730 controller running iDRAC 8 and have remote IPMI access.  I need to replace all of the drives without downtime and I am struggling to find the correct documentation on how to rebuild these drives.   Here's where I am currently at:

1) There are a total of 3 Virtual Disks, each in a RAID 1 (Mirror) configuration, as each as 2 physical drives, which is a total of 6 physical.  I had 2 free spare slots. (the drives were 0:1:0, 0:1:1,0:1:2,0:1:3,0:1:4 and 0:1:5)

2) I added two new physical drives into the empty slots, they appeared as global hot spares.

3) I could not find a proper process on how to add a global hot spare into an existing virtual, so I finally just had remote hands pull physical disk 0:1:2 from the system.  The hot spare rebuilt but left me showing 0:1:2 was missing from the system.

4) After the rebuilt was completed and logged in storage events, I had remote hands move the hotspare  in 0:1:6 (which had the remote data rebuilt) into the slot of 0:1:2 hoping that it would see the data as consistent and return to a normal state.  However, it detected it as 'Foreign' and tagged it as 0:2:

5) Knowing that was not what I wanted, I moved that hotspare from the physical slot 0:1:2 back to 0:1:6 and tried inserting a NEW drive in 0:1:2.

Now I have slot #6 has 0:6 with a state of Foreign.  Slot #2 has a ready disk in 0:1:2, and Slot #7 is my OTHER hotspare as 0:1:7.  My virtual disk 1 is showing as degraded, with 0:1:3 and 0:1:7 

Through IPMI/iDRAC8 what is the proper way to move a global hotspare into being actually part of a virtual disk array?

Secondarily, how can I get my first global hotspare, which had rebuilt virtual disk 1, back to not being detected as foreign?