Physical Disks In Foreign Virtual Disks
The Physical Disks in Foreign Virtual Disks page displays the physical disks and the dedicated hot spare, if any, included in the foreign configuration.
The following table describes the properties for physical disks in the foreign configuration.
Property | Definition |
Status | These icons represent the severity or health of the storage
component.
For more information, see Storage Component Severity. |
Name | Displays the name of the physical disk. The name is comprised of the connector number followed by the disk number. |
State | Displays the current state of the physical disk. |
After Import State | Displays the after-import state of the physical disk. The physical
disk can be imported in any of the following states:
|
Capacity | Displays the capacity of the disk. |
Failure Predicted | Displays whether the physical disk has received a Self-Monitoring
Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) alert and is therefore predicted
to fail. For more information on SMART predictive failure analysis,
see Monitoring
Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers. For information on replacing
the physical disk, see Replacing A Physical
Disk Receiving SMART Alerts. You may also want to review the alert log to see whether the physical disk has generated alerts pertaining to a SMART predictive failure. These alerts can assist you in identifying the cause of the SMART alert. The following alerts may be generated in response to a SMART alert:
For information on alert messages, see the Server Administrator Messages Reference Guide. |
Progress | Displays the progress of an operation being performed on the physical disk. |
Bus Protocol | Displays the technology that the physical disk is using. Possible
values are:
|
Certified | Indicates that the drive has firmware which has been tested and fully qualified by the service provider. Drives that are not certified by the service provider may work but, are not supported and recommended for use in servers. |
Media | Displays the media type of the physical disk. The possible
values are:
|
Used RAID Disk Space | Displays the amount of the physical disk space that is used by
the virtual disks on the controller. This property is not applicable
for physical disks attached to non-RAID controllers. In certain circumstances, the Used RAID Disk Space displays a value of zero (0) even though a portion of the physical disk is actually being used. This occurs when the used space is 0.005GB or less. The algorithm for calculating the used disk space rounds off a figure of 0.005GB or less than zero. Used disk space that is between 0.006GB and 0.009GB is rounded off to 0.01GB. |
Available RAID Disk Space | Displays the amount of available space on the disk. This property is not applicable for physical disks attached to non-RAID controllers. |
Hot Spare | Indicates whether the disk has been assigned as a hot spare. This property is not applicable for physical disks attached to non-RAID controllers. |
Vendor ID | Displays the hardware vendor of the disk. |
Product ID | Displays the product ID of the disk. |
Revision | Displays the firmware version of the disk. |
Serial No. | Displays the serial number of the disk. |
Negotiated Speed | Displays the speed of data transfer that the disk negotiated while spinning up and upon initial communication with the controller. This speed is dependent on the speed of the disk, the capable speed of the controller, the current speed of the controller on that connector, and the speed of the Enclosure Management Module (EMM) on the enclosure. |
Capable Speed | Displays the highest possible speed with which the device can transfer data. |
Manufacture Day | Displays the day of the month on which the physical disk was manufactured. |
Manufacture Week | Displays the week of the year during which the physical disk was manufactured. |
Manufacture Year | Displays the year in which the physical disk was manufactured. |
SAS Address | Displays the SAS address of the physical disk. The SAS address is unique to each SAS disk. |
After Import Status | Displays the status of the physical disk after importing the
foreign configuration. Possible values are:
|
Product ID | Displays the serial number of the drive which can be used as a unique number to identify the disk. |
Encryption Capable | Displays whether the physical disk is a Self Encryption Disk (SED). The possible values are Yes and No. |
Encrypted | Displays whether the physical disk is encrypted to the controller. The possible values are Yes and No. For a non-SED the value is N/A. |
Part Number | Displays the unique Bill Of Materials assignment number for a physical disk. The numbers four through eight represent the service provider part number for that model drive. |