Users Guide

NOTE: When you perform the Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk, the associated virtual disk will be in

failed state.

NOTE: The operation failed to complete message is displayed, if you perform the Prepare to Remove operation

on the physical disk of Boot virtual disk/mounted virtual disk.

Virtual Disk Tasks Supported By The PERC Software

Controllers

Table 46. Virtual Disk Tasks Supported by the PERC S150 Controllers

Virtual Disk Task Name PERC S150

Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare Yes

Create Virtual Disk Yes

Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard Yes

Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard Yes

Rename Yes

Blink/Unblink Yes

Reconfigure Yes

Change Policy Yes

Delete Last Virtual Disk Yes

Delete (any) Virtual Disk Yes

Check Consistency Yes

Disk Cache Policy Yes

Virtual Disk Specifications For PERC Software RAID

Controllers

Table 47. Virtual Disk Specifications for S150 Controllers

Virtual Disk Specification PERC S150

Maximum Number of Virtual Disks per Controller 16

Minimum Virtual Disk Size 100MB

Maximum Virtual Disk Size None

Maximum Number of Spans per Virtual Disk NA

Maximum Number of Physical Disks per Span NA

Minimum Stripe Size 64 K

Maximum Stripe Size 64 K

Maximum Number of Virtual Disks per Physical Disk 8

Maximum Number of Physical Disks that Can Be Concatenated NA

Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 0 16

Maximum Physical Disks in a RAID 1 2

Maximum Number of Physical Disks in a RAID 5 16

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