User's Manual

12 Contents
Clear Physical Disk and Cancel Clear. . . . . . . . . 192
Revertible Hot Spare
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Instant Encrypt Erase
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Full Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Convert to RAID Capable Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Convert to Non-RAID Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
13 Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks . . . . 197
Virtual Disk Considerations for Controllers
. . . . 198
Virtual Disk Considerations for PERC S100,
S110, and S300 Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Virtual Disk Considerations on Linux
. . . . . . . 201
Number of Physical Disks per Virtual Disk . . . . 201
Maximum Number of Virtual Disks
per Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Calculation for Maximum Virtual Disk Size
and the Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard
. . . 202
Channel Redundant Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . 202
Creating Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Reconfiguring/Migrating Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . 204
Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual Disk
Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion
. . . . . . . 204
Maintain Integrity of Redundant Virtual Disks
. . . . 207
Rebuilding Redundant Information
. . . . . . . . . . 208
Virtual Disk Bad Block Management
. . . . . . . . . 208