Never simply "put" or set a drive online. In many scenarios, you will corrupt your data by doing so.

To upgrade your RAID 0 to a RAID 1, you want to go to Open Manage Server Administrator, Storage, PERC, Virtual Disks, and choose Reconfigure from the drop-down menu of Available Tasks for the RAID 0. Select the new drive, select RAID 1 as the RAID level, then execute.

Hi,

i  don't want upgrade from RAID0 to RAID1, i just want to add new HDD on my RAID0.

On Storage/Virtual Disks/PERC, i don't have Reconfigure action in the drop-down menu, i have this options:

- Delete

- Edit Policy: Read Cache

- Edit Policy: Write Cache

- Edit Policy: Disk Cache

- Initialize: Fast

- Initialize: Full

Thank for your help.

Hello @tafkap,

The solution proposed from @theflash1932 is correct. All tasks available for the Virtual Disk are shown in OpenManage Server Administrator. If the particular option to reconfigure your RAID0 is not visible either:

You are not in the correct menu.
The options is not supported by the Controller / VD / RAID type.
You are not running the last version of OMSA.

Disk is not supported

You can also try to perform this task through the PERC BIOS (Ctrl + R on boot).

Please, check this guide: Dell PowerEdge: How to change the RAID lev
el of a Virtual Disk

In this article, you will find information regarding the Online Capacity Expansion appart from RAID Level Migration.

Hope this helps. Don't hesitate to ask if you have more questions.

Regards.

I assumed you were trying to upgrade / fix your RAID 0. Hopefully the data and/or services the server hosts are not critical, RAID 0 should not be used for mission critical workloads.

Diego gave you some possibilities why you can't add the new disk:

What is the make/model of both the drives?
In VD MGMT, is there only ONE VD listed?

Hi,

it's a HGST 900BG with P/N: 0B26037.

I also have HGST 600BG with P/N: 0B31722, not detected by the BIOS.

Hello @tafkap,

I am not able to find both part numbers. Can you share some pictures of the HDDs labels where I can read the whole text?

Thank you in advanced.