Monitoring the Status of Physical Disks
You can monitor a physical disk by checking its attributes with the CellCLI LIST PHYSICALDISK command. For example, a physical disk with a status of failed or warning - predictive failure is having problems and probably must be replaced. The disk firmware maintains the error counters, and marks a drive with Predictive Failure when internal thresholds are exceeded. The drive, not the server software, determines if it needs replacement.
The following list identifies the storage server physical disk statuses.
Physical Disk Status for Storage Servers
- Physical Disk Status
- normal
- normal - dropped for replacement
- normal - confinedOnline
- normal - confinedOnline - dropped for replacement
- not present
- failed
- failed - dropped for replacement
- failed - rejected due to incorrect disk model
- failed - rejected due to incorrect disk model - dropped for replacement
- failed - rejected due to wrong slot
- failed - rejected due to wrong slot - dropped for replacement
- warning - confinedOnline
- warning - confinedOnline - dropped for replacement
- warning - peer failure
- warning - poor performance
- warning - poor performance - dropped for replacement
- warning - poor performance, write-through caching
- warning - predictive failure, poor performance
- warning - predictive failure, poor performance - dropped for replacement
- warning - predictive failure, write-through caching
- warning - predictive failure
- warning - predictive failure - dropped for replacement
- warning - predictive failure, poor performance, write-through caching
- warning - write-through caching