Netserver LH 6000 disks

[Cem Tugrul]

Hello,
i have a LH 6000 srv with 18Gb*6 physical disks
and Nowadays i want to expand(change) with new
146 Gb because of data capacity problem...
For to realize this purpose what are steps?
Thank's...

[amhakassa]

Hi Cem,

The maximum supported hard drive on this server is 73.4GB HDD so you can have up to 6 x 73.4GB ( and another 6*73.4GB if you got a secondary drive cage).

The other option you have is to get a PCI netraid controller and an external enclosure like Rack strage 12 and have 12 x 73.4GB hdds.


Regards
Amha Kassa

[e4services]

Who is this guy! Yes, it is true the largest disk HP ever sold in this servers life/introduction year was the 73GB P3577A. That was the largest manufactured at the time. This does not mean it is the "largest it will support". We have up to the new 300GB SCSIs that will work in place of your 18GB installed now.
Simply follow the instruction to replace each drive in each logical drive one at a time.
If you are going to do the online to preserve the data and not take the server down and simply restore the data to the new array, enter you RAID configuration and put the rebuild rate up to 100%. Then let the controller rebuild each drive before you replace the next. If you leave the rebuild rate at the default it may take days depending on the data, so let the server use all it's resources and make it the #1 priority until you are done. Watch the RAID Manage screen to make sure the rebuild is finish and then remove and replace another.
Note: it still will tkaes some hours. Nad take a backup anyway

[amhakassa]

Hi Eservices,

As I said the max supported by HP is 73.4GB. We don't know what kind of problem we will get if we use a product that is not tested and approved by the manufacturer which is HP.

Besides, I think this is a help forum not a forum to sell your products so becareful what you are doing here. I think you are only seeing selling your product but not worried what the consequene the end user might face because of incomatability. Lets be professional, I am not wrong but even if I am that is not appropriate to say "who is this guy" we are all here to learn and share the knowledge we have and develop together.

Saing this, I don't think your proposal in using the 300GB hard drive work for the end user even as you said it works. The reason why is if you expand the exisiting array by adding the 300GB, this physical drive is going to be treated as 18GB anyways as the exsiting drives in the array are all 18GB.

Regards
Amha Kassa

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi Guys,

First af all i would like to thank your's
kind concern & replies...
This is my srv that the responsibiliy just
given to me so i try to understand what is
going on it.
it was bought 5 years ago and when i check
it saw 6 disks in a case on it and
All disks are not mirrored because it does not have auto-raid or somethingelse and
also i have noticed there is a capacity problem so last Friday i have extended
it via PowerQuset softawre but in near future
again we will be faced capacity problem...
This srv is very important because CatiV5 is
running on it..Users save their files on this
srv...So i also want to plan its's capacity...
i have a SAN env(EVA5000) and enough storage
disks so The Q is,
i-As local srv,Buying a new case with full 0f
6 disks(if so)What can the the Disk capacity
originaly LH 6000 support?
ii-How meaningfull buying HBA for this SRV
and using SAN

if buying a new case for this srv..how can i
configure these disks and migrate the volumes
to this new case disks...