Degraded status

A mode of operation for a , , or    when one physical disk fails in a . The  continues to function in the Degraded mode because it uses the data and  on the physical disks that are still operational. This situation enables you to continue reading and writing to the virtual disk without losing data and to reconstruct the data after you replace the failed physical disk. The Degraded virtual disk icon is displayed in the Logical View as .

If a  is configured and it takes over for the failed physical disk, the virtual disk remains in an  status and still shows a single failed physical disk.