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.
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. 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. | |
RAID 6 | RAID 0, RAID 5 | With or without adding additional disks | |
RAID 6 | RAID 6 | Add at least one additional disk | |
RAID 10 | RAID 10 | Without adding additional disks | |
PERC S100, S110, S130, and S300 | RAID 0 | RAID 0 | With or without additional disks |
RAID 1 | RAID 1 | Without additional disks | |
RAID 5 | RAID 5 | With or without additional disks | |
RAID 10 | RAID 10 | Without additional disks |
NOTE: The order of
the controllers displayed on Storage Management may differ with the
order of the controllers displayed in the Human Interface (HII) and
PERC Option ROM. The order of the controllers does not cause any limitation.
NOTE: When creating
virtual disks using software RAID controllers, the information related
to the physical disks linked to the virtual disk is enumerated or
displayed on Storage Management after a short delay. This delay in
displaying the information does not cause any functional limitation.
If you are creating partial virtual disks, it is recommended that
you provide Storage Management adequate time between each partial
virtual disk creation process.
NOTE: RAID 10 virtual
disk reconfiguration operation is not supported with Intelligent Mirroring.
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