Users Guide
Virtual Disk Properties
The virtual disk properties can vary depending on the model of the controller. Virtual disk properties may include:
Property
Definition
Status
These icons represent the severity or health of the storage component.
Normal/OK
Warning/Non-critical
Critical/Fatal
See "Storage Component Severity" for more information.
Name
This property displays the virtual disk name.
State
This property displays the current status of the virtual disk. Possible values are:
Ready — The virtual disk is functioning normally.
Degraded — A physical disk in a redundant virtual disk is not online.
Resynching — A consistency check is being performed on the virtual disk.
On the PERC 3/Si, 3/Di, and CERC SATA1.5/6ch controllers, reconfiguring a concatenated virtual disk to a RAID 1 may cause the virtual disk to
be in Resynching state. Performing a "Cancel Check Consistency" on a virtual disk while it is in Resynching state will cause the virtual disk to be
in a Failed Redundancy state. See "Considerations for Concatenated to RAID 1 Reconfiguration on PERC 3/Si, 3/Di, and CERC SATA1.5/6ch
Controllers" for more information.
Resynching Paused — A consistency check has been paused on the virtual disk.
Regenerating — A physical disk in the virtual disk is rebuilding.
Reconstructing — The virtual disk configuration has changed. The physical disks included in the virtual disk are being modified to support the
new configuration.
Failed — The virtual disk has encountered a failure of one or more components and is no longer functioning.
Failed Redundancy — This state is displayed when the initial consistency check for the virtual disk is cancelled or is not successful. This state
may also be displayed when a RAID 1, RAID 10 or RAID 1-concatenated virtual disk suffers a physical disk failure. In addition, there are other
conditions related to disk failures and the firmware that can cause a virtual disk to display a Failed Redundancy state. When a virtual disk is in
Failed Redundancy state, performing a "Check Consistency" may return the virtual disk to a Ready state. This state only applies to virtual disks
on a PERC 3/Si, 3/Di, CERC SATA1.5/6ch, and CERC SATA1.5/2s controller.
Background Initialization — A background initialization is being performed on the virtual disk.
Formatting — The virtual disk is being formatted. Formatting applies to the PERC 3/Si, 3/Di, and CERC SATA1.5/6ch controllers. See "Format and
Initialize; Slow and Fast Initialize" for more information.
Initializing — The virtual disk is being initialized. Initialization applies to the PERC 3/SC, 3/DC, 3/QC, 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, 4/Di, 4e/Si, 4e/Di, and
CERC ATA100/4ch controllers. See "Format and Initialize; Slow and Fast Initialize" for more information.
On some controllers, the virtual disk state is not updated until the controller performs an I/O operation. See "I/O and Reboot Requirements for
Detecting Physical Disk Status Changes" for more information.
Degraded Redundancy — This state is applicable to RAID 6 only in which a physical disk in a redundant virtual disk is not online, but the virtual
disk is still accessible and functioning.
Virtual Disk
Bad Block
This property displays whether the virtual disk has bad blocks.
Secured
This property displays whether the virtual disk is secured. The possible values are Yes and No.
Hot Spare
Policy
Violated
This property displays whether the Hot Spare Protection Policy has been violated.
NOTE: This property is displayed only if you set any Hot Spare Protection Policy. For more information, see "Setting Hot Spare Protection
Policy."
Layout
This property displays the RAID level.
Size
This property displays the total capacity of the virtual disk.
The algorithm for calculating the virtual disk size rounds a value of 0.005 or less down to 0.00 and a value between 0.006 and 0.009 up to
0.01. For example, a virtual disk size of 819.725 will be rounded down to 819.72. A virtual disk size of 819.726 will be rounded up to 819.73.
Device
Name
This property displays the operating system device name for this object.
Bus Protocol
This property displays the technology that the physical disks included in the virtual disk are using. Possible values are:
SCSI — Small Computer System Interface