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What is RAID?
Deleting A Virtual Disk
Channel Redundancy
Reconguring 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
Reconguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
Reconguring or migrating a virtual disk enables you to increase the capacity or change the RAID level of the virtual disk.
NOTE: On software RAID S110 and S130 controllers, if a physical disk (SATA SSD or HDD) is removed from a virtual disk
and the same physical disk is reinserted (hot plug) into the virtual disk instantly, within a fraction of a second, then the
virtual disk state is displayed as Ready and the physical disk state is displayed as Online. However, if the same physical
disk is reinserted after a short delay, then the virtual disk state is displayed as Degraded and the physical disk state is
displayed as
Ready.
To recongure a virtual disk:
1. Review the information in Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual Disk Reconguration 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 Recongure task from the virtual disk’s Tasks drop-down list box and click Execute.
4. Complete the Recongure task using the Recongure wizard.
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconguration And
Capacity Expansion
After you have created a virtual disk, the possibilities for reconguring the virtual disk depend on the controller, RAID level, and
available physical disks.
Table 28. Possible scenarios for
reconguring 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
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.
Reconguration 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.
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