Users Guide

Property Denition

For more information, see Storage Component Severity.

Name Displays the name of the foreign conguration and is available as a link. This link enables you to

access the physical disks that constitute the foreign disk.

State Displays the current state of the foreign conguration. Possible values are:

• Ready — The foreign disk can be imported and functions normally after import.

• Degraded — The foreign disk is in degraded state and rebuilds after import.

• Failed — The foreign disk has encountered a failure and is no longer functioning. You cannot

import the foreign conguration.

The foreign conguration may be in degraded or failed state due to any of the following reasons:

• Missing physical disk — One of the physical disk(s) in the potential virtual disk is missing or not

available.

• Missing span — One or more spans of a hybrid virtual disk is missing.

• Stale physical disks — One or more physical disks in the conguration may contain out-of-date

data relating to other disks of that virtual disk. Hence, the data integrity of the imported virtual

disk is not intact.

• Unsupported conguration of the virtual disk — The virtual disk has an unsupported RAID level.

• Import and Export — The virtual disks available for import exceed the number of virtual disks

available for export.

• Incompatible physical disks — Conguration on the physical disks is not recognized by the RAID

rmware.

• Orphan drive — A physical disk in the foreign conguration has conguration information that

matches another physical disk that is already a part of an array (either a foreign or a native

array).

NOTE: For other applicable physical disk tasks and properties, see Physical Disk Or

Physical Device Properties and Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks.

Layout Displays the RAID level of the foreign conguration.

Remarks Provides information about the foreign virtual disk. If the virtual disk cannot be imported, the reason

for failure is displayed.

• Exceeded maximum — The number of virtual disks selected for import has exceeded the

maximum number of supported disks.

• Missing physical disk or Missing span — One or more physical disk(s) or span(s) in the virtual

disk to be imported is missing.

• Unsupported — The selected RAID level is not supported on this controller.

• Orphan drive — The physical disk has been replaced and is no longer a part of the RAID

volume. The conguration should be cleared.

• Stale physical disk — The physical disk to be imported in the virtual disk has outdated data.

• Partially foreign — The virtual disk is part of an already existing conguration. Some physical

disks in this virtual disk are foreign.

Dedicated Hot Spare Displays whether the foreign disk is a dedicated hot spare.

Based on the properties information, you can decide whether you want to import, recover, or clear the foreign conguration.

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