Users Guide

A physical disk is highlighted red at the BIOS Configuration Utility
or Ctrl R
1. Replace the physical disk. Depending on the RAID level of the virtual disk, data might be lost.
2. Perform a rescan to confirm that the new disk was discovered.
Virtual disks - related errors
● Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online in HII or iDRAC on page 44
● Cannot create a virtual disk on page 44
● A virtual disk is in a failed state on page 45
● A virtual disk is in a degraded state on page 46
● Cannot assign a dedicated hot spare to a virtual disk on page 46
● Cannot create a global hot spare on page 47
● A dedicated hot spare fails on page 48
● Failed or degraded virtual disk on page 48
● Cannot initialize a physical disk on page 43
● Cannot create a virtual disk on selected physical disks on page 48
● Cannot perform an Online Capacity Expansion or Reconfigure on a virtual disk on page 48
Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online
in HII or iDRAC
Description:
After the rebuild of a virtual disk is completed using the global hot spare the status of the disk is not listed
as online, instead the status of the disk is listed as ready.
Solution This is an expected behavior. No action is required.
Cannot create a virtual disk
If you are unable to create a virtual disk, check the following causes:
1. The physical disk is not displayed.
2. Insufficient free space available on the selected physical disks.
3. Incorrect number of physical disks selected for the desired RAID level on page 45.
4. The desired physical disk is unavailable.
5. The system already has a maximum of 30 virtual disks.
Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online in HII or
iDRAC
Description:
After the rebuild of a virtual disk is completed using the global hot spare the status of the disk is not listed
as online, instead the status of the disk is listed as ready.
Solution This is an expected behavior. No action is required.
The physical disk is not displayed
This error might be because:
1. The controller cannot communicate with the physical disks.
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