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August 29th, 2014 18:00
expanding raid 60 array
I have an r720xd with a PERC H710 mini setup in a raid60 (3 spans with 4 HDD in each).
I purchased 5 more HDDs to increase the size of the array (and have hot spares), and have 3 currently used as hot spares.
I cannot figure out how to expand the size of the array. I have opened the OMSA, but the only options I can find are to make the new drives hot spares. I cannot find any option to reconfigure, or expand (which are options I found from google) but they dont seem to apply.
How do I do this?
Thank you,
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theflash1932
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August 29th, 2014 20:00
You cannot expand "nested" RAID levels (RAID 10, 50, 60). You can create a new RAID array with the new disks which will be presented to the OS as a separate disk, or if you must have a single unit of storage you will need to backup then restore after creating the larger array.