Users Guide

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Physical Disks in Foreign Virtual Disks
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The Physical Disks in Foreign Virtual Disks page displays the physical disks and the dedicated hot spare, if any, included in the foreign configuration.
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The following table describes properties for physical disks in the foreign configuration.
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Property
Definition
Status
These icons represent the severity or health of the storage component.
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Normal/OK
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Warning/Non-critical
Critical/Fatal
See "Storage Component Severity" for more information.
Name
This property displays the name of the physical disk. The name is comprised of the connector number followed by the disk number.
Current State
This property displays the current state of the physical disk.
After Import
State
This property displays the after-import state of the physical disk. The physical disk can be imported in any of the following states.
Online — The physical disk will be part of the imported virtual disk and will function normally.
Offline — The physical disk will be offline after import to the virtual disk.
Foreign — The virtual disk containing the physical disk cannot be imported and the physical disk will remain in foreign state.
Rebuild — After import of virtual disk, the physical disk will rebuild.
Replacing — A Replace Member Disk task will be performed on the physical disk. For more information, see "Replace Member Disk" and
"Revertible Hot Spare."
Capacity
This property displays the full capacity of the disk.
Failure Predicted
This property displays whether or not the physical disk has received a Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) alert
and is therefore predicted to fail. For more information on SMART predictive failure analysis, see "Monitoring Disk Reliability on RAID
Controllers." For information on replacing the physical disk, see "Replacing a Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts."
You may also want to review the Alert Log to see whether the physical disk has generated alerts pertaining to a SMART predictive failure.
These alerts can assist you in identifying the cause of the SMART alert. The following alerts may be generated in response to a SMART
alert:
"2094"
"2106"
"2107"
"2108"
"2109"
"2110"
"2111"
Progress
This property displays the progress of an operation being performed on the physical disk. For example, if the physical disk is being
rebuilt, then a value of 52% indicates that the rebuild is 52% complete.
This property is only displayed when an operation is being performed on the physical disk.
Type
This property displays the technology that the physical disk is using. Possible values are:
SCSI — Small Computer System Interface
SAS — Serial Attached SCSI
SATA — Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Used RAID Disk
Space
This property displays how much of the physical disk space is being used by the virtual disks on the controller. This property is not
applicable for physical disks attached to non-RAID controllers.
In certain circumstances, the Used RAID Disk Space displays a value of zero (0) even though a portion of the physical disk is actually
being used. This occurs when the used space is 0.005 GB or less. The algorithm for calculating the used disk space rounds off a figure of
0.005 GB or less to 0. Used disk space that is between 0.006 GB and 0.009 GB is rounded off to 0.01 GB.
Available RAID
Disk Space
This property displays the amount of available space on the disk. This property is not applicable for physical disks attached to non-RAID
controllers.