Intel MFSYS25 User Guide - Page 104

example, if required for forensic purposes), or clear the stale condition and reuse the disk. • Not Accessible: This physical drive is not usable. • Predictive Failure (PFA): A drive media error has been found by the media patrol background task, or by a SMART error reported for the drive. • Rebuilding: A storage pool is currently being rebuilt on this drive to replace an offline physical drive. • Migrating: A storage pool is currently being expanded that includes this physical drive. • Media Patrol Running: The Media Patrol background task is currently checking this physical drive for errors. • Transitioning: A storage Pool has been rebuilt to a Spare from this physical drive, and now the error on this drive has been cleared, or the drive has been replaced, and the storage pool is being rebuilt back to this drive. • Predictive Data Migration Running: The Predictive Data Migration (PDM) background task is running on this physical drive. Physical Drive Actions The actions available for a selected hard drive are displayed to the right of the system graphic. For a description of these actions, refer to the following table. Table 19. Physical Drive Action Menu Global Action Menu Item Description Create Storage Pool Designates one or more drives as a storage pool. Global storage actions are available at all times on the storage screen. Selected Physical Drive Action Menu Items Description Identify Drive Illuminates the drive ID LED, which enables easy onsite local identification. Force Offline (present if drive is a hot spare or included in an existing storage pool) Removes the selected drive from a storage pool (if assigned) or from hot-spare status. The status will be indicated as Dead, forced offline. The physical drive must first be forced offline before it can safely be removed. Force Online (available if the drive is offline) Changes a Dead (Offline) drive back online. This may be needed, in some cases, to restore a drive that was forced offline or if you need to recover data from a drive that went offline from some other cause. Make Hot Spare (present if drive is available (i.e., not included in a storage pool or already a hot spare) Designates whether the drive is a global or dedicated hot spare. A global hot spare is applied to any storage pool as needed. A dedicated hot spare is assigned to a specific storage pool. See "Create a Hot-spare Drive " on page 90 for instructions on creating a hot spare. Make Hot Spare is present only if the drive is available (i.e., not included in a storage pool or already a hot spare). Cancel Hot Spare (present if drive role is assigned as either a global or dedicated hot-spare drive) Removes hot-spare status and sets the drive to available. Available drives can be assigned to existing storage pools, new storage pools or used as hot-spare drives. Cancel Hot Spare is present if a drive role is assigned as either a global or dedicated hot spare. 88 Intel® Modular Server System User Guide