User's Manual

Table 6-5. Physical Disk Properties
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Property
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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
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Critical/Fatal
For more information, see Storage Component Severity.
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 is part of the imported virtual disk and functions normally.
Offline—The physical disk is offline after import to the virtual disk.
Foreign—The virtual disk containing the physical disk cannot be imported and the physical disk remains in foreign state.
Rebuild—After import of virtual disk, the physical disk rebuilds.
Replacing—A Replace Member Disk task is 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
For information on Alert Messages, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Messages Reference Guide at support.dell.com/manuals.
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NOTE: On replacing a SMART error drive with a good drive on PERC4/IM controllers, it is necessary to perform a rescan operation on the
controller, for Storage Management to display the correct status of the newly inserted drive.
Progress
This property displays the progress of an operation being performed on the physical disk.
This property is only displayed when an operation is being performed on the physical disk.
Bus Protocol
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)
Media
This property displays the media type of the physical disk. The possible values are:
HDD—Hard Disk Drive. A HDD is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally-encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with
magnetic surfaces.
SSD—Solid State Drive. An SSD is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data.
Unknown—Storage Management is unable to determine the media type of the physical disk.
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.