The following table describes the properties that are displayed for
the Foreign Disks and Global Hot Spares.
Table 1. Foreign Configuration
Properties
Property | Definition |
Status | These icons represent the severity or health of
the storage component.
— Normal/OK
— Warning/Non-critical
— Critical/Failure/Error
For more information, see Storage Component
Severity. |
Name | Displays the name of the foreign configuration
and is available as a link. This link enables you to access the physical
disks that constitute the foreign disk. |
State | Displays the current state of the foreign configuration.
Possible values are:
- Ready — The foreign disk can
be imported and functions normally after import.
- Degraded — The foreign disk
is in degraded state and rebuilds after import.
- Failed — The foreign disk has
encountered a failure and is no longer functioning. You cannot import
the foreign configuration.
The foreign configuration may be in degraded or
failed state due to any of the following reasons:
- Missing physical disk — One of the physical disk(s)
in the potential virtual disk is missing or not available.
- Missing span — One or more spans of a hybrid virtual
disk is missing.
- Stale physical disks — One or more physical disks
in the configuration may contain out-of-date data relating to other
disks of that virtual disk. Hence, the data integrity of the imported
virtual disk is not intact.
- Unsupported configuration of the virtual disk — The
virtual disk has an unsupported RAID level.
- Import and Export — The virtual disks available for
import exceed the number of virtual disks available for export.
- Incompatible physical disks — Configuration on the
physical disks is not recognized by the RAID firmware.
- Orphan drive — A physical disk in the foreign configuration
has configuration information that matches another physical disk that
is already a part of an array (either a foreign or a native array).
|
Layout | Displays the RAID level of the foreign configuration. |
Remarks | Provides information about the foreign virtual
disk. If the virtual disk cannot be imported, the reason for failure
is displayed.
- Exceeded maximum — The number of virtual disks selected
for import has exceeded the maximum number of supported disks.
- Missing physical disk or Missing span — One or more
physical disk(s) or span(s) in the virtual disk to be imported is
missing.
- Unsupported — The selected RAID level is not supported
on this controller.
- Orphan drive — The physical disk has been replaced
and is no longer a part of the RAID volume. The configuration should
be cleared.
- Stale physical disk — The physical disk to be imported
in the virtual disk has outdated data.
- Partially foreign — The virtual disk is part of an already
existing configuration. Some physical disks in this virtual disk are
foreign.
|
Dedicated Hot Spare | Displays whether the foreign disk is a dedicated
hot spare. |
Based on the properties information, you
can decide whether you want to import, recover, or clear the foreign
configuration.