I am re-prvisioning an older PE4400 server. In the process I will be install all new larger HDD's. I plan to use Open Manage V 4.5 that I downloaded and Array Manager to set up 2 drives as a RAID1 and the remaining drives as RAID5 and to install Server 2003 to the RAID1 array. I am getting some conflicting info from the documentation and was wondering if 1. Array Manager can be loaded from this disk set without a previous version installed (the docs indicate it will ony upgrade an existing install) and 2. Is it better to install the first 2 HDD's, set up the RAID1, and then install the remainder and set them up as RAID5, or do it all at once. I have had issues doing it all at once and didn't know if it was just me, or not. Thanks.
You should be able to load up all drives and configure them together... I haven't touched a 440 in a little while, but I don't think you would have any issues with that...
I would make sure that the PERC controller you have in that server (PERC 3?) will support the drive sizes you are upgrading to... I know they have limits just not sure what they are for the PERC Model...
Thanks Sean. I'd rather not be messing with it either but times are tough and we are doing more fixing than replacing right now. It's a PERC 3/Di and Dell support says it will support the 73GB drives I have. I'll see how it works out. I appreciate the help.
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I would make sure that the PERC controller you have in that server (PERC 3?) will support the drive sizes you are upgrading to... I know they have limits just not sure what they are for the PERC Model...