Modifying virtual disks

To change virtual disk type, pieces, or size: in the Virtual Disk Manager, select Modify from the Disk menu, then select the appropriate item from the submenu.

If you want to migrate all your data to new pieces, the virtual disk type migrated to can be of any type (with the exception of RAID 10 and RAID 53). If all or some of the disk pieces in the new configuration are being used in the current configuration, certain migration paths are not supported.

Table 8-3 Guide for migrating to new types

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                   From     From     From     From     From
 New type          Simple   RAID 0   RAID 4   RAID 5   mirror
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 Simple                                                ∗ 
 Concatenate       ∗ 
 Stripe (RAID 0)   ∗                 ∗        ∗ 
 Mirror (RAID 1)   ∗ 
 RAID 4            ∗        ∗                 ∗ 
 RAID 5            ∗        ∗        ∗ 

See also:

• ``Planning your system layout with virtual disks''

• ``Adding virtual disks''

• ``Converting filesystems to virtual disks''

• ``Adding hot spares to virtual disks''

• ``Deleting virtual disks''