topic Re: Extending Disk Space in Disk Enclosures

Extending Disk Space

Jay Cheng_1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:21 GMT

Hi,

How long will it take to extend a disk drive from 200 GB to 300 GB? And will the data still be accessible during the extension?

Re: Extending Disk Space

marsh_1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:15:14 GMT

hi,

i take it you mean a logical drive, it would help if you provided as much info as possible to help the guys on this forum give an answer - so server type and os, storage platform, size and speed of drives, connection type to storage and how busy array is usually might help.
you have another recent thread open - is this related to this question?

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1334051

Re: Extending Disk Space

Sivakumar MJ._1 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:00:07 GMT

Check this if any its related.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1006827

Re: Extending Disk Space

Steven Clementi — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:26:31 GMT

Jay:

The time it takes to extend a disk varies based on several factors...

Speed of the disks, i/o activity, etc.

Assuming you are talking about extending a Logical drive (like on a Smart Array Controller) or a virtual disk (like on an EVA)... with light i/o activity, it should not take very long to go from 200 to 300gb

I/O to the disk device (logical OR virtual) is allowed during the process so your data is available and accessible.

Steven

Re: Extending Disk Space

Jay Cheng_1 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:39:29 GMT

Thanks guys, took awhile, but its done and alls good, pity the size cannot be reduced anymore. any other alternative other than erm... reconfigure the array?

Re: Extending Disk Space

Jay Cheng_1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:50:17 GMT

Thanks people, its done.