Users Guide

Foreign Configuration Properties
The following table describes the properties that are displayed for the Foreign Disks and Global Hot Spares.
Table 12. Foreign Configuration 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 name of the foreign configuration 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 configuration. 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 configuration.
The foreign configuration 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• Stale physical disks — One or more physical disks in the configuration may contain out-of-date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 configuration 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 — Configuration on the physical disks is not recognized by the
RAID firmware.
• Orphan drive — A physical disk in the foreign configuration has configuration 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 configuration.
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 configuration 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 configuration. 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 configuration.
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