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204 Virtual Disks
Reconfiguring/Migrating Virtual Disks
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features .
You can reconfigure or migrate a virtual disk in order to increase the disks
capacity or change its RAID level.
To reconfigure a virtual disk:
1
Review the information in Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual
Disk Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion.
2 Locate the controller on which the virtual disk resides in the tree view.
Expand the controller object until the
Virtual Disks object is displayed.
3 Select the Reconfigure task from the virtual disk’s drop-down menu and
click
Execute .
4 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 13-1. Virtual Disk Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion
Controller Starting RAID Level Target RAID Level Comments
PERC 5/E, and
PERC 5/i
RAID 0 RAID 0 Add at least one
additional disk
PERC 5/E, and
PERC 5/i
RAID 0 (on a single
disk)
RAID 1 Add a single disk
PERC 5/E, and
PERC 5/i
RAID 0 RAID 5 Add at least one
additional disk