Add drives to existing raid 5

[Patric Falinder]

Hi, I have a ML350 G6 with raid 5 configured. I'm wondering if it's possible to add an additional drive to the raid array without rebuilding the whole array ie. I don't loose any data and just expand the array? If possible, does anyone know how VMware vSphere 5.0 handles this? Do I need to rebuild the datastore or can I just expand it? Thanks, -Patric

[giladzzz]

hi

you can expand the raid 5 through the ACU

and if the adapter lets you expand when it's 

finished you need to rescan the disks from vSphere

and it should adjust to the new size

Zohar

[Patric Falinder]

Thanks for the reply, that helped!