Users Guide

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 33. Possible scenarios for
reconguring a virtual disk
Controller Starting RAID Level Target RAID Level Comments
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 H740P Adapter, PERC
H740P Mini Monolithic, PERC
H830 Adapter, PERC H840
Adapter and 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.
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.
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
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