Users Guide
1. Select the physical disks that you want to include in the virtual disk. You can expand the capacity of the virtual disk by adding
additional physical disks. On some controllers, you can also remove physical disks.
The changes you make to the physical disk selection are displayed in the Selected Physical Disks table.
NOTE: For a controller that has more than one channel, it may be possible to configure a virtual disk that is channel-
redundant.
NOTE: For PERC H310 Adapter, PERC H310 Mini Monolithic, PERC H310 Mini Blades, PERC H700, PERC H710
Adapter, PERC H710 Mini Blades, PERC H710 Mini Monolithic, PERC H710P Adapter, PERC H710P Mini Blades, PERC
H710P Mini Monolithic, PERC H800, 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, PERC H730P MX , PERC
H745P MX and PERC FD33xD/FD33xS, PERC H745 and PERC H345 Adapter controllers, if any of the selected
physical drives are in the spun down state, the system displays a message that indicates the IDs of the spun down
drives and the delay in executing tasks on them.
NOTE: For PERC H310 Adapter, PERC H310 Mini Monolithic, PERC H310 Mini Blades, PERC H700, PERC H710
Adapter, PERC H710 Mini Blades, PERC H710 Mini Monolithic, PERC H710P Adapter, PERC H710P Mini Blades, PERC
H710P Mini Monolithic, PERC H800, 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, PERC H730P MX , PERC
H745P MX and PERC FD33xD/FD33xS, PERC H745 and PERC H345 Adapter if the disk group has free space
available, you can expand the virtual disk capacity. To expand virtual disk capacity, click Expand Capacity.
2. Click Continue to go to the next page or Exit Wizard if you want to cancel.
To locate Reconfigure In Storage Management
1. In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.
2. Expand a controller object.
3. Select the Virtual Disks object.
4. Select Reconfigure from the Available Tasks drop-down box.
5. Click Execute.
Virtual Disk Task - Reconfigure Step 2 of 3
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
The virtual disk reconfigure Step 2 page enables you to select the RAID level and size for the reconfigured virtual disk. The Expand
Capacity option appears only for PERC H730P MX and PERC H745P MX controllers with firmware version 7.1 or later.
If you selected Expand Capacity in Step 1, this page allows you to expand the capacity of the virtual disk.
To Reconfigure a Virtual Disk (Changing the RAID Level and Size): Step 2 of 3
1. Select the new RAID level for the virtual disk — The available RAID levels depend on the number or physical disks selected and the
controller. The following describes the possible RAID levels:
• Depending on the controller, Concatenated enables you to combine the storage capacity of several disks or to create a virtual disk
using only a single physical disk. For information on whether the controller supports a single physical disk or two or more when
using Concatenated, see Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk. Using Concatenated does not provide data redundancy nor
does it affect the read and write performance.
• Select RAID 0 for striping — This selection groups n disks together as one large virtual disk with a total capacity of n disks. Data is
stored to the disks alternately so that they are evenly distributed. Data redundancy is not available in this mode. Read and write
performance is enhanced.
• Select RAID 1 for mirroring disks — This selection groups two disks together as one virtual disk with a capacity of one single disk.
The data is replicated on both disks. When a disk fails, the virtual disk continues to function. This feature provides data redundancy
and good read performance, but slightly slower write performance. The system must have at least two physical disks to use RAID
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