Dell PowerVault DL2000 User Manual

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Values for the hardware health are as
follows:

■

OK

The unconfigured virtual disk is
online.

■

Warning

The unconfigured virtual disk may fail
or produce errors, but it is currently
operational.

■

Critical

The unconfigured virtual disk has
failed.

■

Unspecified

The unconfigured virtual disk is in the
process of configuration.

Hardware health

The type of disk group that the
unconfigured virtual disk is on.

Disk classifications are as follows:

■

Stripe with parity (RAID 5)

■

Simple (RAID 0)

Backup Exec creates only physical disk
groups with a disk classification of Stripe
with parity (RAID 5). If another disk
classification appears, the disk group was
created with a tool other than the Storage
Provisioning Option.

Disk classification

See

“About manually creating a virtual disk”

on page 52.

See

“Configuring an unconfigured virtual disk for use with Backup Exec”

on page 52.

Viewing properties of physical disks on a storage array

You can view properties for the physical disks in a storage array.

To view properties of physical disks on a storage array

1

On the navigation bar, click Devices.

2

Expand Storage Arrays, and then select the storage array that you want to
view.

3

In the task pane, under General Tasks, click Properties.

4

On the Physical Disks tab, view the following information:

Viewing general properties, components, and virtual disks in Backup Exec
About viewing storage array components in Backup Exec

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