Table B-3. Virtual Disk States
State Definition
Degraded A physical disk in a redundant virtual disk has failed. Additional failures might result in lost data.
Failed One or more physical disks have failed. The virtual disk has gone offline. The virtual disk cannot restore the data.
Normal A virtual disk has been created and its preparation process has been completed.
Ready A redundant virtual disk has been created, and is ready for additional preparation.
Failure States
Whether a virtual disk is marked as Failed or Degraded depends upon what RAID level virtual disk it is, and how many physical disks of the virtual disk have failed. In Table
If a rescan of all channels is performed after disconnecting a physical disk, the state of every virtual disk using the disconnected physical disk changes from the Ready state to either the Failed or Degraded state, depending on the virtual disk’s RAID level.
For additional information about rescanning to update storage configuration changes, see the OpenManage documentation available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals.
Table
Virtual Disk RAID Level | Failure Status | Description |
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RAID 1, RAID 5 | Degraded | A single physical disk fails. |
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RAID 10 | Degraded | A single physical disk fails in one or |
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Volume, RAID 0 | Failed | A single physical disk fails. |
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RAID 1 or RAID 5 | Failed | Two or more physical disks fail. |
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RAID 10 | Failed | Two physical disks in a mirrored set |
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| fail. |
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