Dell UCSE-900, UCSA-901, UCPA-901, UCSB-900, UCPB-900 manual Smart errors, Replace member errors

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.
	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 non-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.
	2.	Use Replace Member or set up a global hot spare to replace the disk
		automatically.

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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