Raidtec FS3102 Hardware Installation Guide Version 1.0 25
FAILURE
CLASS
FAILURE
TYPE
EFFECT ON
DATA
EFFECT ON
AVAILABILITY
EFFECT ON
PERFORMANCE
USER
NOTIFICATION
Disk
(RAID Level 0)
Medium
Error
Data loss None except for the
data loss
None Disk statistics
updated in
controller
If threshold met,
Event log, Email
and SNMP
Link FC link total
failure
No effect System unavailable
unless alternate SCSI
path is used in cluster
configuration.
N/A Event log, Email
and SNMP
Link FC link
transient
parity errors
No effect System remains
available
Performance will
drop as command
timeouts, bus resets
and retries occur
Event log, Email
and SNMP
Backplane
(RAID Level 1,
5 or 10)
SATA link
failure
No effect
RAID volume
degraded
Loss of high
availability, system
may become
unavailable on
second failure
Performance may
drop.
Event log, Email
and SNMP
Backplane
(RAID Level 0)
SATA link
failure
RAID is
inaccessible
RAID unavailable N/A Event log, Email
and SNMP
Backplane
(RAID Level 1,
5 or 10)
SATA link
degraded
No effect No effect Performance may
drop.
Disk statistics
updated in
controller
If threshold met,
Event log, Email
and SNMP
Backplane
(RAID Level 0)
SATA link
degraded
No effect No effect Performance may
drop.
Disk statistics
updated in
controller
If threshold met,
Event log, Email
and SNMP
Enclosure Fan Failure No effect System availability at
risk until fan replaced
No effect Event log, Email
and SNMP
Enclosure PSU module
failure
No effect System availability at
risk until PSU
module replaced
No effect Event log, Email
and SNMP
BBU BBU failure No effect User data at risk from
transient power
failure if write
caching is enabled.
No effect Event log, Email
and SNMP
Controller Hardware
failure
User data loss
is possible
System unavailable N/A Event log
Controller Software
failure,
controller
reboot
No effect
User data is
maintained in
cache during
controller
reboot
System unavailable
during controller
reboot. Controller
takes 7 seconds to
reboot and 60
seconds for the
system to become
available.
Performance may
drop if command
timeouts occur.
Event log, Email
and SNMP