Users Guide

Refresh Partitions: Click to refresh the Virtual Disk Partitions data once the partition is created using the operating system commands
for the available virtual disks.
Go to the Create Virtual Disk Wizard: Launches the Create Virtual Disk Wizard.
Related concepts
Virtual Disk Properties
Virtual Disk Tasks
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks
Virtual Disk Properties
The virtual disk properties can vary depending on the model of the controller.
Table 30. Virtual Disk Properties
Property Definition
Status These icons represent the severity or health of the storage component.
— Normal/OK
— Warning/Non-critical
— Critical/Failure/Error
For more information, see Storage Component Severity.
Name Displays the virtual disk name.
State Displays the 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.
Performing a Cancelling A Check Consistency on a virtual disk while it is in Resynching
state causes the virtual disk to be in a Failed Redundancy state.
• 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 canceled 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.
• Background Initialization — A background initialization is being performed on the
virtual disk.
• Formatting — The virtual disk is being formatted. 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.
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