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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 operating systems, if you reconfigure the same controller on which the operating system resides,

you may experience extremely slow system performance until the reconfiguration 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.

Related Links

Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk

What Is RAID?

Deleting A Virtual Disk

Channel Redundancy And Thermal Shutdown

Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks

Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties

Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks

Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard

Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard

To Reconfigure A Virtual Disk: Step 1 of 3

1. Select the physical disks that you want to include in the virtual disk. You can expand the capacity of the virtual disk

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.

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 are 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 Monolithic, PERC H800, and PERC H810 Adapter controllers, if the disk group has free space

available, you can expand the virtual disk capacity. To expand virtual disk capacity, click Expand Capacity.

2. Click Continue to go to the next page or Exit Wizard if you want to cancel.