LH3 RAID question

[Mark Fitch]

LH3 with onboard RAID5 with 3 drives and hotswap spare. What is involved in: 1. Bringing up spare as a separate drive/volume. 2. Adding the spare to the exisitng RAID5. Thanks

[Terri Harris]

1. What operating system are you running?
2. Was the RAID 5 configured as a single logical drive? This is with the HP NetRAID utilities (Express Tools or NetRAID Assistant). It has nothing to do with what has been configured using the NOS disk management.

[Mark Fitch]

Windows 2000 with Exchange 2000, hardware RAID, I do not know which HP RAID tools were used or the original installation. Thanks

[Greg Carlson]

Mark,

Both options you can do directly in the NOS without even downing the server. Use NetRaid Assistant in 2000. Mark the HotSpare drive as failed which will kick it into a Ready State. At which point you can highlight the Ready Drive and highlight the logical drive. Then from the toolbar select Logical Drive-> Change Config-> Add Capacity and OK to add the drive to the array. Your done and the drive will do a rebuild into the array. Then you just need to capture the space in the NOS. To add the drive as a standalone drive Raid 0 just go to configuration and config wizard.

If you don't have the netraid assistant installed you can download it from: http://h20004.www2.hp.com/keeper_rnotes/bsdmatrix/matrix62473.html
Side Note-->after installing NetRaid Assistant it will tell you that you need to reboot.. just click no to do it later.. No reboot is required to use the program.

Ciao,
Greg