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Property Definition

For more information, see Storage Component Severity.

Name Displays the name of the physical disk. The name is comprised of the connector

number followed by the disk number.

State Displays the current state of the physical disk.

After Import State 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 on replacing a member disk, see Replacing A Member

Disk and Enabling Revertible Hot Spare.

Capacity Displays the capacity of the disk.

Failure Predicted Displays whether 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

Server Administrator Messages Reference

Guide

Progress Displays the progress of an operation being performed on the physical disk.

Bus Protocol 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)

Certified Indicates that the drive has firmware which has been tested and fully qualified by the

service provider. Drives that are not certified by the service provider may work but,

are not supported and recommended for use in servers.