Dell S100, S300 manual On the virtual disk, A Virtual Disk is in a Failed State

Table 7-8. Cannot Create a Virtual Disk (continued)

Likely Causes to Check	Corrective Actions
The desired physical disk is	Determine whether the physical disk:
unavailable	• Is a dedicated hot spare and unavailable for use in
	another virtual disk.
	• Is full or has insufficient available capacity.
The system already has a	Delete unused virtual disks.
maximum of eight virtual disks	CAUTION: Deleting a virtual disk destroys all data
	on the virtual disk.
Table 7-9. A Virtual Disk is in a Failed State
Likely Causes to Check	Corrective Actions
The virtual disk has lost one or	Replace the failed physical disk(s) and restore the
more physical disks	data from a backup storage source.
A physical disk in the virtual disk	• Re-install the original physical disk if it was
has failed or has been removed	inadvertently removed. Perform a rescan.
	• Check the status of the physical disks in the
	virtual disk. Replace any failed disk(s), if
	necessary. Restore the data from a backup storage
	source.
	After any change, perform a rescan to verify if the
	disk is still in a Failed state.
The virtual disk has lost the	One or more physical disks have failed.
maximum allowable physical	– If the virtual disk is non-redundant, the failure
disks per RAID level	of a single physical disk can cause the virtual

disk to fail.

– If the virtual disk is redundant, two or more physical disks have failed and the virtual disk cannot be rebuilt.

Create a new virtual disk. Restore the data from a backup storage source.

Troubleshooting

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