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T630 view progress in PERC when extending volume
I have a PowerEdge T630 that I have added 9, 4TB drives to. I have gone into PERC to extend the existing RAID 5 Virtual Disk (D: drive) of 3, 4TB drives. I've looked and I can't seem to find the answers to the following questions.
- Is there a way to view that progress after logging into Windows?
- If I reboot the computer and go back into PERC, can I view the progress from within there? Will the reboot hurt the reconstruction?
- After the reconstruction is done, does the additional space just show up on my D: drive or do I need to go into Windows and extend the volume to account for the additional space?
- Currently the size of the Virtual Disk that I'm adding the drives to hasn't changed within Windows and it doesn't appear as there is any performance hit to those drives. At what point in this process will there be a performance impact to the D: drive?
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DELL-Daniel My
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November 9th, 2018 16:00
Hello
You can find information in the manuals. OpenManage Server Administrator and the iDRAC are two methods to view system information without booting into a BIOS utility.
http://www.dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals/
http://www.dell.com/idracmanuals/
http://www.dell.com/openmanagemanuals/
Additional documentation can be found on your system support page.
http://www.dell.com/support/
A reconfigure will not change partition sizes or affect anything else with the file system. You will need to perform actions within the operating system to make use of the new space.
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theflash1932
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November 10th, 2018 10:00
1. As mentioned, you should always have OpenManage installed on Dell servers you manage. You can monitor the progress from there. (You could also have performed the entire operation from there too.)
2. No, it will continue regardless of reboots or server state (unless turned off ;)).
3. The PERC cannot add this space to Windows Disk Management … you must go in and add the space.
4. All along the way there is the potential for a performance hit. If it is not heavily used, then users may not notice it.
You should not be using RAID 5 for disks larger than 1TB. May be late now, but you should have gone to a RAID 6.