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To reconfigure a virtual disk:

Review the information in Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual

Disk Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion.

Locate the controller on which the virtual disk resides in the tree view.

Expand the controller object until the

Virtual Disks

object is displayed.

Select the

Reconfigure

task from the virtual disk’s drop-down menu and

click

Execute

Complete the

Reconfigure

task using the Reconfigure wizard. For more

information, see Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 2 of 3).

Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual Disk

Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion

After you have created a virtual disk, the possibilities for reconfiguring the

virtual disk depend on the controller, RAID level, and available physical disks.

The following table describes the possible scenarios for reconfiguring a virtual

disk. For more information on the RAID levels, see Choosing RAID Levels

and Concatenation.

Table 12-1. Virtual Disk Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion

Controller Starting RAID Level Target RAID Level Comments

PERC 4/SC, PERC

4/DC, PERC

4e/DC, 4/Di,

4e/Si,

PERC

4e/Di, PERC 5/E,

and PERC 5/i

RAID 0RAID 0Add at least one

additional disk