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Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Administrator’s Guide

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Related Disks table

When you select a disk group in the Related Disk Groups table, the disks for it appear in the Related Disks table.

For selected disks, the Related Disks table shows the following information:

Table 1. Related Disks tableRelated disks table
Field Description
Location Shows the location of the disk.
Health Shows the health of the disk: OK, Degraded, Fault, N/A, or Unknown.
Description Shows the disk type:
  • SAS – Enterprise SAS spinning disk.
  • SAS MDL – Midline SAS spinning disk.
  • SSD SAS – SAS solid-state disk.
Size Shows the storage capacity of the disk.
Usage Shows how the disk is being used:
  • LINEAR POOL – The disk is part of a linear pool.
  • DEDICATED SP – The disk is a dedicated spare for a linear disk group.
  • VIRTUAL POOL – The disk is part of a virtual pool.
  • LEFTOVR – The disk is leftover.
  • FAILED – The disk is unusable and must be replaced. Reasons for this status include: excessive media errors, SMART error, disk hardware failure, or unsupported disk.
Disk Group Shows the disk group that contains the disk.
Status Shows the status of the disk:
  • Up – The disk is present and is properly communicating with the expander.
  • Spun Down – The disk is present and has been spun down by the DSD feature.
  • Warning – The disk is present but the system is having communication problems with the disk LED processor. For disk and midplane types where this processor also controls power to the disk, power-on failure will result in Error status.
  • Unrecoverable – The disk is present but has unrecoverable errors.

To see more information about a disk in a disk group, select the pool for the disk group in the pools table, select the disk group in the Related Disk Groups table, and then hover the cursor over the disk in the Related Disks table. The Disk Information panel opens and displays detailed information about the disk.

Table 2. Disk Information panelDisk information panel
Panel Information displayed
Disk Information

Location, serial number, usage, description, size, status, revolutions per minute (spinning disk only), SSD life left, manufacturer, model, firmware revision, power on hours, job status, FDE state, FDE lock key, job running, sector format, transfer rate, SMART, drive spin down count, health

The following are descriptions of some Disk Information panel items:

  • Power On Hours – Total number of hours that the disk has been powered on since it was manufactured. This value is updated in 30-minute increments.
  • FDE State – FDE state of the disk. For more information about FDE states, see the Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System CLI Guide.
  • FDE lock keys – FDE lock keys are generated from the FDE passphrase and manage locking and unlocking the FDE-capable disks in the system. Clearing the lock keys and power cycling the system denies access to data on the disks.

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