Failing a Disk Physical Disk

Use the Fail Physical Disk option to fail a selected disk physical disk or multiple disk physical disks.

Caution: Potential loss of data access.

This operation could result in data loss or the loss of data . Do not use this operation unless advised to do so by Recovery Guru.
This operation fails when a modification operation is in progress.
Conditions in which data loss will occur:

Failure of a single disk physical disk in a virtual disk
Failure of a single disk physical disk in a virtual disk that has a status, if the disk physical disk failed is the mirror disk physical disk of another failed disk physical disk
Failure of a single disk physical disk in a or virtual disk that has a Degraded status
Failure of two or more disk physical disks in a RAID 3, RAID 5, or RAID 6 virtual disk that has an status

Conditions in which a loss of data redundancy will occur:

Failure of a single disk physical disk in a RAID 1/10 virtual disk
Failure of a single disk physical disk in an RAID 3 or Optimal RAID 5 virtual disk that has an Optimal status
Failure of two disk physical disks in an RAID 6 virtual disk that has an Optimal status

Important: Use this option only under the guidance of a Customer and Technical Support representative.

In the Physical View, select one or more disk physical disks, and select Advanced >> Recovery >> Fail disk physical disk.

Type yes, and click OK.

The disk physical disks fail, and the dialog closes. The disk physical disk in the Physical View appears in the state in the selected mode.

Note: If you plan to remove the disk physical disk, wait at least 30 seconds before you remove it.

If this disk physical disk was assigned to a , then the Logical View changes are shown in the table.

Condition

Logical View Changes

The virtual disk was in the Optimal state before the disk physical disk was failed

The virtual disk changes to a Degraded state in the Logical View.

The virtual disk was in the Degraded state before the disk physical disk was failed

The virtual disk changes to a Failed state in the Logical View.

Failing a Disk Physical Disk

Conditions in which data loss will occur:

Conditions in which a loss of data redundancy will occur:

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