Choosing an appropriate physical disk type

Important: Mixing different  within a single  or  is not permitted.

The Create Virtual Disk Wizard allows you to create  and  on the . Using the Wizard, you select the capacity you want to allocate for the virtual disk from either  or  available on the storage array, and then you define basic and optional advanced parameters for the virtual disk.

With the advent of different physical disk technologies, it is now possible to mix different physical disk types, using different physical disk technologies and characteristics within a single storage array. In this release of the storage management software, the following physical disk types are supported:

• Serial ATA
• Parallel ATA