Maintaining the Physical Disks of Storage Servers

This section contains the following topics:

• About System Disks and Data Disks

• Monitoring the Status of Physical Disks

• What Happens When Disk Errors Occur?

• About Detecting Underperforming Disks

• About Rebalancing the Data

• Monitoring Hard Disk Controller Write-Through Cache Mode

• Replacing a Failed Physical Disk

• Replacing a Faulty Physical Disk

• Removing an Underperforming Physical Disk

• Moving All Drives from One Storage Server to Another

• Removing and Replacing the Same Physical Disk

• Reenabling a Rejected Physical Disk

See Also:

Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) website at http://www.oracle.com/goto/maa for additional information about maintenance best practices