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Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 1 of 3)

Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator Storage Management User's Guide

Does my controller support this feature? See "Appendix: 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 "Choosing RAID Levels and Concatenation".

NOTE: You cannot reconfigure a virtual disk on a controller that is operating in cluster mode.
NOTE: On the PERC 5/E controller, you can create no more than 64 virtual disks. After you have reached this limit, you will no longer be able to reconfigure any of the virtual disks on the controller.
NOTE: On Linux, if you do a reconfigure on the same controller on which the operating system resides, you may experience extremely slow system performance until the reconfigure is complete.
NOTE: You may want to review "Virtual Disk Considerations for PERC 3/SC, 3/DCL, 3/DC, 3/QC, 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, 4/Di, 4e/Si, 4e/Di, CERC ATA100/4ch, PERC 5/E and PERC 5/i, and SAS 5/iR Controllers". This section contains considerations that also apply to reconfiguring a virtual disk on these controllers.

To Reconfigure a Virtual Disk: Step 1 of 3

  1. Select the physical disks that you want to include in the virtual disk. You can expand the virtual disk's capacity 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. See "Channel Redundancy and Thermal Shutdown" for more information.
  1. Click Continue to go to the next screen or Exit Wizard if you want to cancel.

To locate this task in Storage Management:

  1. Expand the Storage tree object 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 menu.

  5. Click Execute.


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