Users Guide

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.
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 H730P Adapter,
PERC H730P Mini Monolithic,
PERC H730P Mini Blades, PERC
H730P Slim, PERC H830
Adapter, PERC FD33xD/
FD33xS
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
RAID 5 RAID 5, RAID 6 Add at least one additional disk.
RAID 6 requires a minimum of 4
disks.
RAID 6 RAID 0, RAID 5 With or without adding
additional disks
RAID 6 RAID 6 Add at least one additional disk
RAID 10 RAID 10 Without adding additional disks
SAS 6/iR N/A N/A N/A
PERC S100, S110, S130, and
S300
RAID 0 RAID 0 With or without additional disks
RAID 1 RAID 1 Without additional disks
RAID 5 RAID 5 With or without additional disks
RAID 10 RAID 10 Without additional disks
NOTE: The order of the controllers displayed on Storage Management may differ with the order of the controllers
displayed in the Human Interface (HII) and PERC Option ROM. The order of the controllers does not cause any
limitation.
NOTE: When creating virtual disks using software RAID controllers, the information related to the physical disks linked
to the virtual disk is enumerated or displayed on Storage Management after a short delay. This delay in displaying the
information does not cause any functional limitation. If you are creating partial virtual disks, it is recommended that you
provide Storage Management adequate time between each partial virtual disk creation process.
NOTE: RAID 10 virtual disk reconfiguration operation is not supported with Intelligent Mirroring.
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