Reconfiguring or migrating Virtual Disks

About this task

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported features.

Reconfiguring or migrating a virtual disk enables you to increase the capacity or change the RAID level of the virtual disk.

NOTE: On software RAID controllers, if a physical disk (SATA SSD or HDD) is removed from a virtual disk and the same physical disk is reinserted (hot plug) into the virtual disk instantly, within a fraction of a second, then the virtual disk state is displayed as Ready 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 Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual Disk Reconfiguration and Capacity Expansion.
  2. Locate the controller on which the virtual disk resides in the tree view. 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.