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• Both drives should be of same type.
• Both drives should run at same speed.
Reconfiguring or migrating virtual disks
About this task
Reconfiguring or migrating a virtual disk (VDs) enables you to increase the capacity or change the RAID level of the virtual disk.
NOTE: In the PERC BIOS Configuration Utility window, with software RAID S110 and S130 controllers, if a physical disk
(supports SATA SSD or HDD and does not support SAS drives) is removed from a virtual disk and the same physical disk
is reinserted (hot plug) into the virtual disk instantly, then the virtual disk state is displayed as Ready or Non RAID (for
the PERC S110 and S100) 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 reconfigure a virtual disk:
Steps
1. Review the information in the Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual Disk Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion section in this
document.
2. In the tree view, locate the controller on which the virtual disk resides. Expand the controller object until the Virtual Disks object is
displayed.
3. Select the Reconfigure task from the virtual disk’s Tasks drop-down list box and click Execute.
4. Complete the Reconfigure task using the Reconfigure wizard.
Starting and target RAID levels for virtual disk reconfiguration and
capacity expansion
After you have created a virtual disk, the possibilities for reconfiguring the virtual disk depend on the controller, RAID level, and available
physical disks.
Table 19. Possible scenarios for reconfiguring 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 Mini
Monolithic, PERC H730 Mini
Blades, PERC H730P Adapter,
PERC H730P Mini Monolithic,
PERC H730P Mini Blades, PERC
H730P Slim, PERC H830
Adapter, 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.
Reconfiguration 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.
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