A drive in a 3D + 1P RAID group fails in a VSP G700 and there is no spare drive available. Which two actions are automatically performed by the system? (Choose two.)

Question

Options

• AAn alert is generated.
• BDynamic Sparing is started.
• CThe Correction Copy process starts.
• DThe RAID group is placed in Correction Access.

• A
  75% (44)
• B
  8% (5)
• C
  17% (10)

Explanation

When a drive fails in a RAID group on the VSP G700 and no spare drive exists, the system immediately raises an alert (A) to notify administrators of the degraded state, and simultaneously places the RAID group into Correction Access (D) - a degraded operational mode that allows continued I/O while flagging the group as needing attention.

B (Dynamic Sparing) is wrong because Dynamic Sparing is the automatic process of assigning an available spare drive to replace the failed one - it requires a spare to exist, which the question explicitly rules out. C (Correction Copy) is wrong for the same reason: Correction Copy is the rebuild/copy process that runs after a spare has been assigned via Dynamic Sparing; without a spare, there is nowhere to copy data to.

Memory tip: Think of it as a chain - Spare exists → Dynamic Sparing → Correction Copy. If you break the chain at step 1 (no spare), you skip B and C entirely and get only the two "no-spare" responses: Alert + Degraded access (Correction Access). "No spare = Alert + Access, nothing more."

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