Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head - Manual (Page 216)

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• OK – This is the normal state of a logical drive. When a logical drive is Functional, it is ready for immediate
use. For RAID Levels other than RAID 0 (Striping), the logical drive has full redundancy.
• Synchronizing – This condition is temporary. Synchronizing is a maintenance function that verifies the
integrity of data and redundancy in the logical drive. When a logical drive is Synchronizing, it functions and
your data is available. However, access is slower due to the synchronizing operation.
• Critical/Degraded – This condition arises as the result of a physical drive failure. A degraded logical
drive still functions and your data is still available. However, the logical drive has lost redundancy (fault
tolerance). You must determine the cause of the problem and correct it.
• Rebuilding – This condition is temporary. When a physical drive has been replaced, the logical drive
automatically begins rebuilding in order to restore redundancy (fault tolerance). When a logical drive is
rebuilding, it functions and your data is available. However, access is slower due to the rebuilding operation.
• Transport Ready – After you perform a successful Prepare for Transport operation, this condition
means you can remove the physical drives of this disk array and move them to another enclosure or
different drive slots. After you relocate the physical drives, the disk array status shows OK.
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This feature creates a disk array only. You can also use the Wizard to create a disk array with logical drives and
spare drives at the same time.
This action requires Super User or Power User privileges.
To create a disk array:
1. Click the Storage tab.
2. Click the Disk Array icon.
3. Click the Create Disk Array button.