Dell MD3000 Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming, Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together

Supported RAID Levels	36
RAID 0	36
RAID 1	36
RAID 5	36
RAID 10	36
RAID Level Usage	37
Segment Size	37
Hot Spares and Rebuild	37
Global Hot Spares	38
Hot Spare Operation	38
Rebuild	38
Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors	38
RAID Operations and Features	39
Virtual Disk Operations	39
Disk Group Operations	40
RAID Background Operations Priority	42
Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming	42
Advanced Features	44
Storage Partitions	44
Host Types	45
Snapshot Virtual Disks	46
Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk	46
Virtual Disk Service	46
Volume Shadow-Copy Service	47
Virtual Disk Copy	47
Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together	48
Hardware Redundancy and Failover	49
Redundancy and Non-Redundancy	49
Multi-Path Software	49
Host Bus Adapters	50
Host Cabling for Redundancy	50
When a RAID Controller Module Is Replaced or Removed	52
RAID Controller Failover Modes	53
RAID Enclosure Thermal Shutdown	53

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