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Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management User's Guide
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".
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NOTE: You cannot reconfigure a virtual disk on a controller that is operating in cluster mode. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
The changes you make to the physical disk selection are displayed in the Selected Physical Disks table.
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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. |
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