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March 8th, 2022 07:00
Adding harddrive to raid 5
hello everyone,
I have a Dell Poweredge T410 with and upgraded H700 raid controller, I currently have a raid 5 configuration consisting of 3 total disk in slots 0,1,2. They are all 4tb hard drives, i want to increase the current storage size by 1 additional hard drive, I purchased another 4tb hard drive shut down the computer installed it and booted it back up went into the raid configuartion using Ctrl-R and i can see the unalloclated new drive below my current virtual disk but i do not understand how to add that into my current raid without data loss.
side note: current virtual disk is no where near max capacity, I was just unable to populate all of the drives prior to creating the raid 5 and as i accumilate more drives i need to add them to the virtual drive.
theflash1932
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March 8th, 2022 07:00
Ok, first, some best practices:
To add the drive to the current RAID 5, 1) you can only have ONE Virtual Disk across the disks in order to add another disk to it, and 2) you need to RECONFIGURE the RAID 5. You can do this in OpenManage Server Administrator in Windows - Storage, PERC, Virtual Disks, Reconfigure from dropdown, select the disk and the RAID level, then Execute.
PowermanT410
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March 8th, 2022 08:00
Everything i have ever read said to use raid 5 as configuration, i didnt have many choices, why should i use it.
Also what do i do i have already shut it down and repowered it about the hot swapable drive
do i need to download OMSA?
PowermanT410
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March 8th, 2022 08:00
also my server is runing a basic windows 10, im trying to download that software but im having issues
PowermanT410
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March 8th, 2022 10:00
UPDATE: i have installed Server administrator on the computer, but now whenever i try to login i get "connection failure"
im using
localhost:1311
same login as i use to login to windows
this is on a windows 10 basic edition