Dell S100, S300 manual Features

Table 3-1. Features of the PERC S100 controller and PERC S300 controller (continued)

RAID Controller Feature Description

Virtual disks (general) Up to eight virtual disks are supported.

The PERC S100 adapter and PERC S300 adapter allows:

•Creating virtual disks of different RAID levels on a single controller.

•Creating different RAID level virtual disks on the same physical disk, to adapt each virtual disk to the I/O that it processes.

•Building different virtual disks with different characteristics for different applications.

The PERC S100 adapter and PERC S300 adapter does not allow:

•Creating a virtual disk from a mix of different type physical disks. For example, a RAID 10 virtual disk cannot be created from two SATA-II HDD physical disks, a SAS HDD physical disk, and a SSD physical disk. All of the physical disks must be the same interface (SAS or SATA) and drive type (HDD or SSD).

•Selecting a physical disk as a dedicated hot spare if the physical disk is a different type from the physical disk or disks.

A virtual disk refers to data storage created by the controller from one or more physical disks. Although a virtual disk can be created from several physical disks, it is seen by the operating system as a single disk.

The capacity of a virtual disk can be expanded online for any RAID level, without the operating system being rebooted.

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