Contents 5
Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
RAID Level Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 44
Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Disk Group Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
RAID Background Operations Priority . . . . . . . . . 45
Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming. . . . . . . . 46
Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Host Server-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . 49
Host Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 50
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 52
Multi-Path Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Preferred and Alternate Controllers
and Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Virtual Disk Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Monitoring MD3200 Series System Performance . . . . 55
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