yes, you can expand RG with disks from other enclosures, do consider this (from Clariion BP whitepaper) :
Binding with DPE drives
In a total power-fail scenario, the SPS (standby power supply) supplies battery-backed power to the SPs and vault disks. This allows the storage system to save the contents of the write cache to disk.
However, the power to the non-vault disk storage system enclosures (DAEs) is not maintained. When the storage system reboots, LUNs that had I/O outstanding are checked, using the background verify process, to verify that no writes in progress resulted in partial completions. The background verify is a fairly low-intensity process.
However, a LUN bound with some drives in the vault enclosure (DPE or first DAE, depending on the model) and with some drives outside of the vault enclosure may require a rebuild, which is a more disk-intensive process. This affects performance to some degree on reboot.
To avoid a rebuild on boot, create groups with all disks either in or out of the vault enclosure. If groups are split, follow these guidelines:
1. Do not split RAID 1 groups across the vault enclosure and another DAE.
2. For parity RAID (RAID 5, RAID 3), make sure at least two drives are outside the vault enclosure.
3. For RAID 1/0, make sure at least one mirror (both the primary and secondary drive in a pair) is outside the vault enclosure.
it's not a problem, it's just all members of a raid group have to consume the same amount of space ..so the raid group will ignore the fact that this drive has an additional 250G worth of space.
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Posted May 19th, 2014 11:00
is this a VNX ? You cant' expand raid groups on VNX, you would have to create a brand new RAID group and utilize Meta functionality.