User's Manual

Contents 13
Full Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Convert to RAID Capable Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Convert to Non-RAID Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
13 Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . 219
Virtual Disk Considerations for Controllers
. . . . . 220
Virtual Disk Considerations for
CERC SATA1.5/6ch, and CERC SATA1.5/2s
Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Virtual Disk Considerations for PERC S100,
S110, and S300 Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Virtual Disk Considerations on Linux
. . . . . . . . 223
Number of Physical Disks per Virtual Disk . . . . . 224
Maximum Number of Virtual Disks per
Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Calculation for Maximum Virtual Disk Size
and the Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard . . . . 225
Channel Redundant Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . 225
Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Reconfiguring/Migrating Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . 226
Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual Disk
Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion
. . . . . . . . 227
Maintain Integrity of Redundant Virtual Disks
. . . . . 231
Rebuilding Redundant Information
. . . . . . . . . . . 232
Virtual Disk Bad Block Management
. . . . . . . . . . 232
What is a Virtual Disk Bad Block?
. . . . . . . . . 232
Recommendations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234