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тАО09-22-2005 04:42 AM
тАО09-22-2005 04:42 AM
Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
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тАО09-22-2005 05:41 AM
тАО09-22-2005 05:41 AM
Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
what kind of array we're talking about?
Hope this helps!
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тАО09-22-2005 06:08 AM
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Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
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тАО09-22-2005 06:14 AM
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Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
Hope this helps!
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тАО09-22-2005 06:33 AM
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Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
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тАО09-22-2005 06:59 AM
тАО09-22-2005 06:59 AM
Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
grab a 200GB IDE Harddrive, take an Image of the existing RAID Arry (with ghost or Acronis true image)
Remove the 36GB HDD's inser the 73GB HDD's build your new Array.
Take the image and ghost it back to the array. (Expanding the partitions to the new size)
Sounds stupid, but worked for me 20+ times.
If it doesn't work put your 36Gb Disk back in place and your server is up and running with the old configuration.
Depending on the RAID controller it could take several hours to ghost 100GB. So this is not an option if you have littel downtime. But I'm not aware of a raid controller where you can expand your array on the fly with a running OS.
Volker
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тАО09-22-2005 08:19 AM
тАО09-22-2005 08:19 AM
Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
You can easily swap out each disk, one at a time ... waiting for each one to rebuild. The process can take a longer time, but your server stays up and running the whole time.
After you swap out and rebuild the last drive, you will have the extra space available to you for logical drive expansion and/or creation.
Steven
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тАО09-22-2005 07:28 PM
тАО09-22-2005 07:28 PM
Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
Steven is 100% correct about it
See the example from HP to do so.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=lpn14582
No doubt go for it
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Prashant S
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тАО09-22-2005 07:38 PM
тАО09-22-2005 07:38 PM
Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
ok you are righ├В┬┤t, but with this you have an extra logical drive. You have no additional free space on the existing partitions.
I don't know what Tom wants, but in most cases you want to have more free space on your existing partitions, rather then an extra drive.
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тАО09-23-2005 12:10 AM
тАО09-23-2005 12:10 AM
Re: Upgrading disks on existing RAID5
Depending on Tom's current Logical Drive set up, he can either use a free utility from Microsoft (Diskpart) to extend data partitions or may have the need for some other 3rd party utility.
If you have a moment Tom, describe to us your current disk layout so that we can give you more options...
Do you have 1 Logical drive with partition in your OS? or do you have 2 logical drives? one for your System disk and a seperate one for data?
Steven
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