Users Guide

Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
Reconfiguring or migrating a virtual disk enables you to increase the capacity or change the RAID level of
the virtual disk.
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 Tasks drop-down list box and click Execute.
4. Complete the Reconfigure task using the Reconfigure wizard.
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.
Table 28. Possible scenarios for reconfiguring a virtual disk
Controller Starting RAID Level Target RAID Level Comments
PERC 6/E, PERC 6/I,
PERC H800 Adapter,
PERC H700 Adapter,
PERC H700 Integrated,
and PERC H700
Modular, PERC H310
Adapter, PERC H310
Mini Monolithic, PERC
H310 Mini Blades, PERC
H710 Adapter, PERC
H710 Mini Blades, PERC
H710 Mini Monolithic,
PERC H710P Adapter,
PERC H710P Mini
Blades, PERC H710P
Mini Monolithic, PERC
H810 Adapter, PERC
H330 Adapter, PERC
H330 Mini Monolithic,
PERC H330 Mini Blades,
PERC H330 Embedded,
PERC H730 Adapter,
PERC H730 Mini
Monolithic, PERC H730
Mini Blades, PERC
RAID 0
RAID 1 Add a single disk
RAID 0 RAID 0, RAID 5 Add at least one
additional disk.
RAID 0 RAID 6 RAID 6 requires a
minimum of 4 disks.
Reconfiguration from
RAID 0 to RAID 6
requires at least 2
additional disks even
when this exceeds the
4-disk minimum
required by RAID 6
RAID 1 RAID 0 With or without adding
additional disks
RAID 1 RAID 5, RAID 6 Add at least one
additional disk.
RAID 6 requires a
minimum of 4 disks.
RAID 5 RAID 0 With or without adding
additional disks
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