Users Guide

Smart error detected on a physical disk in a redundant virtual disk

Issue: A SMART error is detected on a physical disk in a redundant virtual disk.

Corrective Action: Perform the following steps:

1. Back up your data.

2. Force the physical disk offline.

NOTE: If a hot spare is present, the rebuild starts with the hot spare after

the disk is forced offline.

3. Replace the disk with a new physical disk of equal or higher capacity.

4. Perform the Replace Member operation.

NOTE: The Replace Member operation allows you to copy data from a

source physical disk of a virtual disk to a target physical disk that is not a

part of the virtual disk. For more information about the Replace Member

feature, see the topic Using Replace Member And Revertible Hot Spares.

Smart error detected on a physical disk in a non-redundant virtual disk

Issue: A SMART error is detected on a physical disk in a redundant virtual disk.

Corrective Action: Perform the following steps:

1. Back up your data.

2. Use Replace Member or set up a global hot spare to replace the disk

automatically.

NOTE: For more information about the Replace Member feature, see the

topic Using Replace Member And Revertible Hot Spares.

3. Replace the affected physical disk with a new physical disk of equal or higher

capacity.

4. Restore from the backup.

Replace member errors

NOTE: For more information about the Replace Member features, see Using Replace Member And

Revertible Hot Spares.

Source disk fails during replace member operation

Issue: The source disk fails during the Replace Member operation.

Corrective Action: If the source data is available from other disks in the virtual disk, the rebuild begins

automatically on the target disk, using the data from the other disks.

Target disk fails

Issue: The target disk fails.