Adding additional Hard Disk

[Aviram Liberman]

hi,
I have DL380 G4 with 2 disks of 146 gig in raid 1.
I need to enlarge the volume- I want to add 3 more disk of 146 giga in raid 5.
how can I enlarge the volume with these additional disks ?

[Niels Vejrup Pedersen]

Hello,

1) Add two disks to array

2) Change raid level to 5

3) Add last disk to array.

4) Expand logical drive if needed or create new.

Regards

[Víctor Cespón]

Not clear what's the final result you want to achieve...

5 disks in RAID 5?
2 disks in RAID 1 and 3 in RAID 5?
Expand the existing logical drive at the hardware level or create a new one and add it to the existing one using OS tools?

All that is possible...

Check the ACU user guide to see how to expand arrays and extend logical units:

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00709035/c00709035.pdf

[Aviram Liberman]

I need to enlarge the logical drive.
I want to add 3 more disks in raid 5.
so to conclude:
I want to have:
1)2 disk in raid 1 ( that is what I currently have )
2) add 3 disks in raid 5
3) in the end to enlarge the disk space and maintain the current disk structure.

[Niels Vejrup Pedersen]

Then you can follow my advice using the Array Configuration Utility

Regards

[Aviram Liberman]

this is applied to Linux as well?
since I have Linux os installed.

[Víctor Cespón]

Aviram, if you create another RAID and another logical unit with the 3 disks in RAID 5, you'll need to use operating system tools to join that space to the filesystem. Then it's a question for Linux forums.

Create a new RAID and logical unit in ACU is the easy part.

[Aviram Liberman]

thanks a lot.