Dell PowerEdge User Manual

The physical disk is not displayed
This error might be because:
1 The controller cannot communicate with the physical disks.
2 A cable might be loose or defective.
3 The physical disk might be a SAS drive.
Re-seat the physical disks in the backplane and check their cables.
Insucient free space available on the selected physical disks
There must be sucient available free space on the physical disk used by the virtual disk.
Incorrect number of physical disks selected for the desired RAID level
For details about RAID levels and the allowable number of physical disks used with each RAID level, see understanding RAID levels in RAID
Technology Guide at dell.com/support/manuals.
The desired physical disk is unavailable
Determine whether the physical disk:
1 Is a dedicated hot spare and unavailable for use in another virtual disk.
2 Is full or has insucient available capacity.
The system already has a maximum of 16 virtual disks
Delete unused virtual disks.
CAUTION
: Deleting a virtual disk destroys all data on the virtual disk.
A virtual disk is in a degraded state
If the virtual disk is in a degraded state, check the following causes:
1 A physical disk was removed.
2 Physical or mechanical problems with the physical disk.
3 The virtual disk has lost redundancy.
4 Corrupted metadata in the virtual disk.
A physical disk was removed
1 Install the original physical disk if it was inadvertently removed, or replace it with a new or used physical disk.
2 Initialize a new physical disk. Perform a Rescan for all physical disks that are replaced.
3 If the physical disk was not removed, check that its cables are correctly installed.
Troubleshooting your system
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Dell PowerEdge Specifications

General

Brand	Dell
Model	PowerEdge
Category	Server
Language	English