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

RAID Controller Feature

Description

 

 

Virtual disk migration

The controller supports automatic virtual disk migration

 

from a PERC S100 adapter to a PERC S300 adapter (or vice

 

versa). Manual intervention for migration is not required or

 

used by the PERC S100 adapter or

 

PERC S300 adapter.

 

CAUTION: Before starting a virtual disk migration, power-

 

down both systems before removing or inserting the physical

 

disks. After the migration occurs, make sure that all of the

 

physical disks have been migrated and are present in the

 

virtual disk.

 

CAUTION: The virtual disk is lost if you perform a virtual disk

 

migration during an OCE.

 

NOTE: The PERC S100 adapter only supports SATA HDD and

 

SATA SSD disks. SAS disks cannot be migrated with a

 

PERC S100 adapter.

 

NOTE: A bootable virtual disk cannot be migrated between

 

dissimilar controllers or dissimilar system models when the

 

system uses Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as its operating

 

system.

 

 

Virtual disk RAID

Virtual disks at different RAID levels can be created.

levels

 

Virtual disk transformation

Virtual disk transformation can consist of:

Capacity expansion, using OCE (to allocate additional virtual disk space on the original physical disks or after additional physical disks are added).

Rebuilding (rebuilding data on a virtual disk consists of using an available hot spare or backup physical disk).

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Dell (PERC) S100, PERC S300 manual Virtual disk, Migration during an OCE