topic VA7100 Disk swapping in Disk Enclosures

VA7100 Disk swapping

Sander_4 — Mon, 22 May 2006 07:34:38 GMT

What if I pull an 18Gig active disk from a VA7100 and replace it with a 36Gig, and let it rebuild the set. Can I then use the extra 18gig of that 36gig drive?

Re: VA7100 Disk swapping

Luk Vandenbussche — Mon, 22 May 2006 07:51:44 GMT

Hi Sander,

You need to install 4 disk of the same capacity to gain extra disk space.

Re: VA7100 Disk swapping

Sander_4 — Mon, 22 May 2006 08:36:26 GMT

so if I replace all 15 disks, 1 by one, waiting for the rebuilds to end, I could use all space?

So this means I could replace all 18gigs with 36gigs without any downtime?

Re: VA7100 Disk swapping

Luk Vandenbussche — Mon, 22 May 2006 08:54:04 GMT

Sander,

Yes, if you replace them disk by this and you wait each time the rebuild is done you will gain extra capacity