HP LH4r Integrated HP NetRaid Controller Configuration Guide - Page 131
Logical Drive, Online, Degraded, Offline, Reconstructing, Rebuilding, Logical Volume, Mirroring,
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Glossary Logical Drive: A virtual drive within an array, which may consist of more than one physical disk. Logical drives divide up the contiguous storage space of an array of disk modules or a spanned group of arrays of disks. The storage space in a logical drive is spread across all the disks in the array or spanned arrays. An integrated HP NetRAID controller can be configured with up to eight logical drives in any combination of sizes. Configure at least one logical drive for each array. A logical drive can be in one of five states (also see the SCSI Disk Status below): • Online: all participating disk modules are online. • Degraded: (Critical) a single disk module in a redundant array (not RAID 0) is not online. Data loss may result if a second disk module fails. • Offline: two or more disk modules in a redundant array (not RAID 0), or one or more disk modules in a RAID 0 array are not online. • Reconstructing: participating disk modules are being reconstructed. • Rebuilding: participating disk modules are being rebuilt. I/O operations can only be performed with logical drives that are online or degraded (critical). Logical Volume: A virtual disk made up of logical disks rather than physical ones. Also called a partition. MB: A megabyte; an abbreviation for 1,048,576 (2 to the 20th power) bytes; used for memory or disk capacities. Mirroring: The style of redundancy in which the data on one disk completely duplicates the data on another disk. RAID levels 1 and 10 use mirroring. Parity: Parity is an extra bit added to a byte or word to reveal errors in storage (in RAM or disk) or transmission. It is used to generate a set of redundancy data from two or more parent data sets. The redundancy data can be used to reconstruct one of the parent data sets; however, parity data do not fully duplicate the parent data sets. In RAID, this method is applied to entire drives or stripes across all disk drives in an array. Parity consists of Dedicated Parity, in which the parity of the data on two or more disks is stored on an additional disk, and Distributed Parity, in which the parity data are distributed among all the disks in the system. If a single disk fails, it can be rebuilt from the parity of the respective data on the remaining disks. 125