User's Manual

250 Virtual Disks

Before continuing with the virtual disk reconfiguration, you should be

familiar with the information in Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual

Disk Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion and Choosing RAID Levels

and Concatenation.

NOTE: You cannot reconfigure a virtual disk on a controller that is operating in

cluster mode.

NOTE: You can create no more than 64 virtual disks on a controller. After you have

reached this limit, you can no longer reconfigure any of the virtual disks on the

controller. But, for IR and PERC H200 controllers, you can create only two virtual

disks

NOTE: On Linux, if you do a reconfigure on the same controller on which the

operating system resides, you may experience extremely slow system performance

until the reconfigure is complete.

NOTE: You may want to review Virtual Disk Considerations for Controllers. This

section contains considerations that also apply to reconfiguring a virtual disk on

these controllers.

To Reconfigure a Virtual Disk: Step 1 of 3

Select the physical disks that you want to include in the virtual disk. You

can expand the virtual disk’s capacity by adding additional physical disks.

On some controllers, you can also remove physical disks.

The changes you make to the physical disk selection are displayed in the

Selected Physical Disks

table.

NOTE: For a controller that has more than one channel, it may be possible to

configure a virtual disk that is channel-redundant. For more information, see

Channel Redundancy and Thermal Shutdown.

NOTE: For PERC H310 Adapter, PERC H310 Mini Monolithic, PERC H310 Mini

Blades, PERC H700, PERC H710 Adapter, PERC H710 Mini Blades, PERC H710 Mini

Monolithic, PERC H710P Adapter, PERC H710P Mini Blades, PERC H710P Mini

Monolithic, PERC H800, and PERC H810 Adapter controllers

if any of the selected

physical drives is in the spun down state, the system displays a message that

indicates the IDs of the spun down drives and the delay in executing tasks on them.

NOTE: For PERC H310 Adapter, PERC H310 Mini Monolithic, PERC H310 Mini

Blades, PERC H700, PERC H710 Adapter, PERC H710 Mini Blades, PERC H710 Mini

Monolithic, PERC H710P Adapter, PERC H710P Mini Blades, PERC H710P Mini