Native Disk Group And Foreign Physical Disk Refer to Each Other

What Caused the Problem?

A Partially Complete Disk Group considers a foreign physical disk to be a member of the disk group and the foreign physical disk also considers itself a member of the Partially Complete Disk Group. A foreign physical disk is a physical disk that has been exported from this storage array or not yet completely imported into the storage array. The Recovery Guru Details area provides specific information you will need as you follow the recovery steps.

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Important Notes

This problem usually results because you forced an import of a disk group (from a different storage array into this storage array) while it was missing a physical disk, and then you inserted the missing physical disk into the storage array after you forced the import.
The affected disk group will be in a Partially Complete state until you fix this problem. Any additional physical disk failures could result in loss of access to the disk group data.
To resolve this problem, you will need to remove the foreign physical disk and then assign a local physical disk to take the place of the foreign physical disk in order to make the disk group Optimal. Follow the Recovery Steps below to fix the problem.
Once you have completed the Recovery Steps, you will have fixed the logical problem for the disk group. However, if you reinsert the foreign physical disk, the storage array might report a different problem if the physical disk still has a logical problem (for example, the physical disk might still consider itself part of the disk group). If this scenario occurs, follow the Recovery Steps for the other problem to fix the physical disk's logical problem.
You can remove the physical disk while the storage array is receiving I/O.

Recovery Steps

Refer to the Details area to find which physical disk slot is reporting the foreign physical disk.

Remove the foreign physical disk.

The affected disk group transitions to a Partially Complete Disk Group state because it has a Missing physical disk instead of a reference to a Foreign physical disk.

Important: Read all of the following steps thoroughly or click the Save As button before taking action, because you will lose access to these Recovery Steps once you click Recheck.

a	Click Recheck to rerun the Recovery Guru.
b	Select the "Partially Complete Disk Group" problem in the Summary area.
c	Complete the Recovery Steps for this problem to transition the disk group to an Optimal state. Note: Choose the option in the Recovery Steps that explains how to replace the missing physical disk using the Replace Physical Disks dialog.