MSA500 query - Extend and Expand

[Leonard Thng]

Hi..

Currently i have a MSA30 box connected to a MSA500. I'm planning to put in 6 x 72GB hard disks into the MSA30 and expand a current array which a logical drive of 100GB. Is there an option whereby after i expand my array, i can do a extension of the current logical drive?

From what i understand, even if i'm able to do extension on the current logical drive, at the windows OS level, the extended partition will be shown as unused partition. Am i correct on this portion?

Is there any ways to make the OS see the extended partition as part of the disk??


Leonard

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi Leonard,

Yes. You probably need to use diskpart, although you don't say which version of Windows you're using.

Take a look at this Microsoft article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

[Mark Matthews]

Hi Leonard,

You can either extend the current logical drive within the array, or create a new logical drive.

From the Windows side of things, if the volume you want to extend was created on a Dynamic disk, then you can extend the volume onto the new logical drive (windows unallocated space) that you create in ACU.

If its your C:, System drive or it has a pagefile on it, then you cannot extend it Im afraid.
Limitation of the OS...

Thanks,
Mark...