Software Support

Property Definition
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 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 CERC SATA1.5/6ch controllers. For more information, see Format,
Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize.
• Initializing — The virtual disk is being initialized. For more information,
see Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize.
On some controllers, the virtual disk state is not updated until the
controller performs an I/O operation. For more information, see I/O and
Reboot Requirements for Detecting Physical Disk Status Changes.
• 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.
Partitions
This property displays whether the virtual disk has a partition. The possible
values are Not Available and Link to the Partitions information page.
Virtual Disk Bad Block Displays whether the virtual disk has bad blocks.
Encrypted Displays whether the virtual disk is encrypted. The possible values are Yes and
No.
Hot Spare Policy Violated 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 Displays the RAID level.
Size 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 is rounded down to 819.72. A virtual disk size of
819.726 is rounded up to 819.73.
Associated Fluid Cache State
This property displays the associated Fluid Cache state of the virtual disk. The
possible values are
• Active — The Fluid Cache disk is active.
• Failed — The Fluid Cache has encountered a failure of one or more
components and is no longer functioning.
• No — The Fluid Cache is not enabled.
• Disabling — In this transient state, the cache removal from the virtual
disk is in process.
Device Name Displays the operating system device name for this object.
Bus Protocol Displays the technology that the physical disks included in the virtual disk are
using. Possible values are:
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