Dell EMC Server Administrator Storage Management 9.2

Physical Disk Tasks Supported By The PERC Software RAID Controllers

Table 1. Physical Disk Tasks Supported by the PERC S100, PERC S110, PERC S130, PERC S300 and S140 Controllers
Physical Disk Task Name PERC S100 PERC S110 PERC S130 PERC S300 PERC S140
Blink/Unblink No Yes Yes No Yes
Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare YesYesYesYesYes
Set Disk Cache PolicyNoNoYesNoYes
Export LogNoNoYesNoYes
Convert to RAID capable diskNoNoYesNoYes
Prepare to RemoveNoNoYesNoYes
NOTE: For physical disks connected to Software RAID S130 controller, 512 MB of disk space is by default used by the controller for metadata.
NOTE: When you perform the Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk, the associated virtual disk will be in failed state.
NOTE: The operation failed to complete message is displayed, if you perform the Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk of Boot virtual disk/mounted virtual disk.