MSA 2040 SMU Reference Guide

Viewing information about a vdisk 105
Disk properties
When you select Disks in the Vdisk Overview table, a Disk Sets table and enclosure view appear. The Disk Sets table
shows:
• Total Space. Total storage space in the vdisk, followed by a color-coded measure of how the space is used.
• Type. For RAID 10 or RAID 50, the sub-vdisk that the disk is in; for other RAID levels, the disk’s RAID level; or
SPARE.
• Disk Type.
• SAS: Enterprise SAS.
•SAS MDL: Midline SAS.
• sSAS: SAS SSD.
• Disks. Quantity of disks in the vdisk or sub-vdisk.
• Size. Total capacity of the disks in the vdisk or sub-vdisk.
The enclosure view table has two tabs. The Tabular tab shows:
• Health.
OK
Degraded
Fault
N/A (if the disk is spun down)
Unknown
If the disk’s health is not OK, view health details in the Enclosure Overview panel (page 113).
• Name. System-defined disk name using the format Disk-enclosure-number.disk-slot-number.
• Type.
• SAS: Enterprise SAS.
•SAS MDL: Midline SAS.
• sSAS: SAS SSD.
• State. Shows how the disk is used:
• If the disk is in a vdisk, its RAID level
• AVAIL: Available
• FAILED: The disk is unusable and must be replaced. Reasons for this status include: excessive media errors;
SMART error; disk hardware failure; unsupported disk.
• SPARE: Spare assigned to a vdisk
• GLOBAL SP: Global spare
•LEFTOVR: Leftover
This also shows any job running on the disk:
• DRSC: The disk is being scrubbed
• EXPD: The vdisk is being expanded
• INIT: The vdisk is being initialized
• RCON: The vdisk is being reconstructed
• VRFY: The vdisk is being verified
• VRSC: The vdisk is being scrubbed
• Size. Disk capacity.
• Enclosure. Name of the enclosure containing the disk.
• Serial Number. Disk serial number.
• Status. Up (operational) or Not Present.
The Graphical tab shows the locations of the vdisk’s disks in system enclosures and each disk’s Health and State.