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Server Administrator Storage Management 8.2 User’s Guide

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Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 1 of 3)

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

The Reconfigure task enables you to change the virtual disk configuration. Using this task, you can change the RAID level and increase the virtual disk size by adding physical disks. On some controllers, you can also remove physical disks.

Before continuing with the virtual disk reconfiguration, you should be familiar with the information in Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion and Choosing RAID Levels And Concatenation .

  • NOTE: You cannot reconfigure a virtual disk on a controller that is operating in cluster mode.
  • NOTE: You can create no more than 64 virtual disks on a controller. After you have reached this limit, you can no longer reconfigure any of the virtual disks on the controller. But, for IR and PERC H200 controllers, you can create only two virtual disks.
  • NOTE: On systems running the Linux operating system, if you reconfigure the same controller on which the operating system resides, you may experience extremely slow system performance until the reconfiguration is complete.
  • NOTE: If you want to reconfigure a virtual disk with an additional physical disk, the physical disk must be of supported bus protocol, media type, sector size, T10 Protection Information capability, and encryption capability.

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