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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