SMART errors
SMART monitors the internal performance of all motors, heads, and physical disk electronics and detects predictable physical disk failures.
NOTE: For information about where to find reports of SMART errors that could indicate hardware failure, see the Dell OpenManage storage management documentation at dell.com/support/ manuals.
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 | Perform the following steps: | |
Action: | 1. | Back up your data. |
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| 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
Issue: | A SMART error is detected on a physical disk in a redundant virtual disk. | |
Corrective | Perform the following steps: | |
Action: | 1. | Back up your data. |
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| 2. | Use Replace Member or set up a global hot spare to replace the disk |
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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.
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