FAILURE

FAILURE

EFFECT ON

EFFECT ON

EFFECT ON

USER

CLASS

TYPE

DATA

AVAILABILITY

PERFORMANCE

NOTIFICATION

Disk

Medium

Data loss

None except for the

None

Disk statistics

(RAID Level 0)

Error

 

data loss

 

updated in

 

 

 

 

 

controller

 

 

 

 

 

If threshold met,

 

 

 

 

 

Event log, Email

 

 

 

 

 

and SNMP

Link

FC link total

No effect

System unavailable

N/A

Event log, Email

 

failure

 

unless alternate SCSI

 

and SNMP

 

 

 

path is used in cluster

 

 

 

 

 

configuration.

 

 

Link

FC link

No effect

System remains

Performance will

Event log, Email

 

transient

 

available

drop as command

and SNMP

 

parity errors

 

 

timeouts, bus resets

 

 

 

 

 

and retries occur

 

Backplane

SATA link

No effect

Loss of high

Performance may

Event log, Email

(RAID Level 1,

failure

RAID volume

availability, system

drop.

and SNMP

5 or 10)

 

degraded

may become

 

 

 

 

 

unavailable on

 

 

 

 

 

second failure

 

 

Backplane

SATA link

RAID is

RAID unavailable

N/A

Event log, Email

(RAID Level 0)

failure

inaccessible

 

 

and SNMP

Backplane

SATA link

No effect

No effect

Performance may

Disk statistics

(RAID Level 1,

degraded

 

 

drop.

updated in

5 or 10)

 

 

 

 

controller

 

 

 

 

 

If threshold met,

 

 

 

 

 

Event log, Email

 

 

 

 

 

and SNMP

Backplane

SATA link

No effect

No effect

Performance may

Disk statistics

(RAID Level 0)

degraded

 

 

drop.

updated in

 

 

 

 

 

controller

 

 

 

 

 

If threshold met,

 

 

 

 

 

Event log, Email

 

 

 

 

 

and SNMP

Enclosure

Fan Failure

No effect

System availability at

No effect

Event log, Email

 

 

 

risk until fan replaced

 

and SNMP

Enclosure

PSU module

No effect

System availability at

No effect

Event log, Email

 

failure

 

risk until PSU

 

and SNMP

 

 

 

module replaced

 

 

BBU

BBU failure

No effect

User data at risk from

No effect

Event log, Email

 

 

 

transient power

 

and SNMP

 

 

 

failure if write

 

 

 

 

 

caching is enabled.

 

 

Controller

Hardware

User data loss

System unavailable

N/A

Event log

 

failure

is possible

 

 

 

Controller

Software

No effect

System unavailable

Performance may

Event log, Email

 

failure,

User data is

during controller

drop if command

and SNMP

 

controller

maintained in

reboot. Controller

timeouts occur.

 

 

reboot

cache during

takes 7 seconds to

 

 

 

 

controller

reboot and 60

 

 

 

 

reboot

seconds for the

 

 

 

 

 

system to become

 

 

 

 

 

available.

 

 

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