Virtual Disk Migration And Disk Roaming; Disk Migration - Dell PowerVault MD3200i Owner's Manual

The priority of each of these operations can be changed to address
performance requirements of the environment in which the operations are to
be executed.
NOTE:
Setting a high priority level impacts storage array performance. It is not
advisable to set priority levels at the maximum level. Priority must also be assessed
in terms of impact to host server access and time to complete an operation. For
example, the longer a rebuild of a degraded virtual disk takes, the greater the risk
for secondary disk failure.

Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming

Virtual disk migration is moving a virtual disk or a hot spare from one array to
another by detaching the physical disks and re-attaching them to the new
array. Disk roaming is moving a physical disk from one slot to another on the
same array.

Disk Migration

You can move virtual disks from one array to another without taking the
target array offline. However, the disk group being migrated must be offline
before your perform disk migration. If the disk group is not offline prior to
migration, the source array holding the physical and virtual disks within the
disk group marks them as missing. However, the disk groups themselves
migrate to the target array.
An array can import a virtual disk only if it is in an optimal state. You can
move virtual disks that are part of a disk group only if all members of the disk
group are being migrated. The virtual disks automatically become available
after the target array has finished importing all the disks in the disk group.
When you migrate a physical disk or a disk group from one MD3200i array to
another, the MD3200i array you migrate to, recognizes any data structures
and/or metadata you had in place on the migrating MD3200i array. However,
if you are migrating from any device other than a MD3200i Series storage
array, the MD3200i array does not recognize the migrating metadata and that
data is lost. In this case, MD3200i initializes the physical disks and mark
them as unconfigured capacity.
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