Users Guide

• When you create a virtual disk using the Advanced Wizard, you can select the physical disk sector from the Sector Size drop-down

list. The options available are:

– 512B

– 4KB

• You cannot use both 4KB sector hard-disk drives and 512B sector hard-disk drives for a virtual disk creation as mixing of hard-disk drive

sectors is not allowed in Storage Management.

NOTE: If the system contains any 512e sector hard-disk drives, the 512e sector hard-disk drives are identied/reported as

512B sector hard-disk drives and follows the behavior of the 512B sector hard-disk drives.

Hot Spare Considerations — 4KBSector Hard-Disk Drives

The following is the Hot Spare considerations (Dedicated and Global Hot Spare) for 4KB sector hard-disk drives supported on PERC 9

hardware controllers:

• You cannot assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Dedicated Hot Spare for virtual disks created with 512B sector hard-disk drives and

vice versa.

• You cannot assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Global Hot Spare, if the virtual disk created consists of 512B sector hard-disk drives

only and vice versa.

• You can assign 4KB sector hard-disk drives as Global Hot Spare, if there are 4KB sector hard-disk drives and 512B sector hard-disk

drives in the virtual disks created and vice versa.

NOTE

: If you perform this action a warning message is displayed.

Related Tasks

• Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard

Reconguration Considerations — 4KB Sector Hard-Disk

Drives

You cannot recongure 4KB sector hard-disk drives with virtual disks that consist of 512B sector hard-disk drives and vice versa.

Support For PERC 9 and PERC 10 Hardware Controllers