
Disk drives
Disk drives (either data drives or FASTier drives) are mounted in drive carriers to simplify their installation and
removal from the chassis.
CAUTION:
Disk drive carriers help promote proper airflow for drives. For this reason, even empty
carriers without disk drives installed MUST remain in the chassis.
Identifying failed disk drives
If a disk drive fails, the Unity Storage System software interfaces and enclosures display the appropriate
warnings.
Data disk failures
Firstly, when a disk fails, a warning is displayed on the Unity Storage System Dashboard panel.
Figure 1-2: Data disk failure error popup
Also, one of two other indicators appears:
If a spare disk is available, the Tasks in Progress dialog
displays
a “resilvering” process, which means that
the spare disk is being configured as a replacement for the failed disk.
Note
It can take several hours to several days for the disk resilvering process to complete, depending on how
much data needs to be copied to the spare disk.
If there is no spare disk available, the
Storage Pool
node also displays a failure icon.
Secondly, the disk LEDs on the front of the Unity Storage System indicate which disk has failed.
A steady red LED on a drive indicates failure.
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