Depending on the OS you can run a Dset to discover the Raid and system information. You can download the Dset application here - http://dell.to/1DW5yyF .
Run that report and we can verify the hardware. Now with rebuilding the drives individually, after the last drive is rebuilt you will see that the displayed array size has not been changed. When you rebuild them the drives are marked the same size as when the array is configured. You would need to create another array to include the additional space provided by the upgrades. Now with this there is a chance that if a drive fails in the original virtual disk that the new space created may fail redundancy. Just an FYI. My suggestion would be to just take the time to back everything up and then delete and recreate the array with the new drives and then install the OS and then restore the data. This is by far the most stable, yet time consuming choice.
Also, if the array is a raid 10 then it can't be expanded at all, due to being a spanned array. Which is a raid limitation.
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Depending on the OS you can run a Dset to discover the Raid and system information. You can download the Dset application here - http://dell.to/1DW5yyF .
Run that report and we can verify the hardware. Now with rebuilding the drives individually, after the last drive is rebuilt you will see that the displayed array size has not been changed. When you rebuild them the drives are marked the same size as when the array is configured. You would need to create another array to include the additional space provided by the upgrades. Now with this there is a chance that if a drive fails in the original virtual disk that the new space created may fail redundancy. Just an FYI. My suggestion would be to just take the time to back everything up and then delete and recreate the array with the new drives and then install the OS and then restore the data. This is by far the most stable, yet time consuming choice.
Also, if the array is a raid 10 then it can't be expanded at all, due to being a spanned array. Which is a raid limitation.
Let me know the results of the Dset.