topic Upgrading ml370 SCSI drives in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Upgrading ml370 SCSI drives

YANNIS — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:39:05 GMT

i have a ml370 g3 with
2 32gb hdd 15krpm on raid0
and 1 72gb hdd 10krpm on raid0 .
how can i add a 32gb hdd 15rpm without problems?
the disks is all hotswap
can i just put the hdd to the slot ?

Re: Upgrading ml370 SCSI drives

Symen — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:45:53 GMT

Yes. you could add it on to your 2*36.4Gb raid 0 set and add some redundancy or you could create a new array.

Re: Upgrading ml370 SCSI drives

YANNIS — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:42:55 GMT

i have put the disk to the hotswap slot but the o/s do not regnorize the disk
how is the right way to intall the disk?
the o/s is win200sbs ?

i must reboot the server and continue the instalation with the compaqs smartareay cd?

if i add the 36gb disk to raid0 i think i have problems with the capacity because the ather disk on raid0 is 72 gb and the 64gb is data

can i add the disk just as a scsi disk?

the computer manager regnorize 32gb as basic
and 72gb as dinamic

Re: Upgrading ml370 SCSI drives

Symen — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:04:14 GMT

You need to configure your extra disc before you can start using it. Download the Array Configuration Utility from the following link and install.
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/14185.html

You won't be able to add you 36Gb drive into an array together with you 72Gb drive without losing half of the largest drive's capacity.

Re: Upgrading ml370 SCSI drives

YANNIS — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:42:56 GMT

i think the only solution is to make a new array and add the 36gb disk standalone
can you help me to do it?
thanks

Re: Upgrading ml370 SCSI drives

Symen — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:29:02 GMT

Have you installed the ACU (from the link above)?
if yes, put in your drive, open the program, hit "create array", set the RAID level to 0, create a logical drive on the array.

two comments:
-These RAID levels are made to have redundancy in your system, so you shouldnt have any RAID 0's.

-There is a manual for this, I advise you read it.