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RAID Levels

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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID | RAID Levels 2.4.17 Virtual Drive States 2.4.18 Beep Codes 2.4.19 Enclosure Management 2.5 RAID Levels The virtual drive states are described in Table 5. Table 5: Virtual Drive States State Description Optimal Degraded The virtual drive operating condition is good. All configured drives are online. The virtual drive operating condition is not optimal. One of the configured drives has failed or is offline. Partial Degraded The operating condition in a RAID 6 virtual drive is not optimal. One of the configured drives has failed or is offline. RAID 6 can tolerate up to two drive failures. Failed The virtual drive has failed. Offline The virtual drive is not available to the RAID controller. An alarm sounds on the MegaRAID controller when a virtual drive changes from an optimal state to another state, when a hot spare rebuilds, and for test purposes. Table 6: Beep Codes, Events, and Virtual Drive States Event RAID 0 virtual drive loses 1 or more virtual drives RAID 1 loses a mirror drive RAID 1 loses both drives RAID 5 loses 1 drive RAID 5 loses 2 or more drives RAID 6 loses 1 drive RAID 6 loses 2 drives RAID 6 loses more than 2 drives A hot spare completes the rebuild process and is brought into a drive group Virtual Drive State Beep Code Offline 3 seconds on and 1 second off Degraded Offline Degraded Offline Partially Degraded Degraded Offline N/A 1 second on and 1 second off 3 seconds on and 1 second off 1 second on and 1 second off 3 seconds on and 1 second off 1 second on and 1 second off 1 second on and 1 second off 3 seconds on and 1 second off 1 second on and 3 seconds off Enclosure management is the intelligent monitoring of the disk subsystem by software and/or hardware. The disk subsystem can be part of the host computer or can reside in an external disk enclosure. Enclosure management helps you stay informed of events in the disk subsystem, such as a drive or power supply failure. Enclosure management increases the fault tolerance of the disk subsystem. The RAID controller supports RAID levels 0, 00, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60. The supported RAID levels are summarized in the following section. In addition, it supports independent drives (configured as RAID 0 and RAID 00.) The following sections describe the RAID levels in detail. Page 31

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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID
|
RAID Levels
2.4.17
Virtual Drive States
The virtual drive states are described in
TableĀ 5
.
2.4.18
Beep Codes
An alarm sounds on the MegaRAID controller when a virtual drive changes from an
optimal state to another state, when a hot spare rebuilds, and for test purposes.
2.4.19
Enclosure Management
Enclosure management is the intelligent monitoring of the disk subsystem by software
and/or hardware. The disk subsystem can be part of the host computer or can reside in
an external disk enclosure. Enclosure management helps you stay informed of events
in the disk subsystem, such as a drive or power supply failure. Enclosure management
increases the fault tolerance of the disk subsystem.
2.5
RAID Levels
The RAID controller supports RAID levels 0, 00, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60. The supported
RAID levels are summarized in the following section.
In addition, it supports independent drives (configured as RAID 0 and RAID 00.) The
following sections describe the RAID levels in detail.
Table 5:
Virtual Drive States
State
Description
Optimal
The virtual drive operating condition is good. All configured drives are
online.
Degraded
The virtual drive operating condition is not optimal. One of the configured
drives has failed or is offline.
Partial Degraded
The operating condition in a RAID 6 virtual drive is not optimal. One of the
configured drives has failed or is offline. RAID 6 can tolerate up to two drive
failures.
Failed
The virtual drive has failed.
Offline
The virtual drive is not available to the RAID controller.
Table 6:
Beep Codes, Events, and Virtual Drive States
Event
Virtual Drive State
Beep Code
RAID 0 virtual drive loses 1 or more
virtual drives
Offline
3 seconds on and 1 second off
RAID 1 loses a mirror drive
Degraded
1 second on and 1 second off
RAID 1 loses both drives
Offline
3 seconds on and 1 second off
RAID 5 loses 1 drive
Degraded
1 second on and 1 second off
RAID 5 loses 2 or more drives
Offline
3 seconds on and 1 second off
RAID 6 loses 1 drive
Partially
Degraded
1 second on and 1 second off
RAID 6 loses 2 drives
Degraded
1 second on and 1 second off
RAID 6 loses more than 2 drives
Offline
3 seconds on and 1 second off
A hot spare completes the rebuild
process and is brought into a drive
group
N/A
1 second on and 3 seconds off