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September 6th, 2005 14:00

Extend/Expand Virtual Disk

PERC 4/Di in PE2600
Replaced 36GB disks with 72's, one by one so the array was rebuilt as I manually failed and replaced each drive.  Would like to extend/expand the Virtual Disk Array to take advantage of the additional space.  Is this possible or do I have to create a new array?
 
TIA,
 
  --Chris
  • warwizard55

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    Posted September 6th, 2005 23:00

    Hi Chris,

      I've covered this issue in other threads, so I'll summarize:

    2 options:

    1) Make a second volume on the existing array. This makes it more likely having to rebuild the server as the system ages, when you have two partitions offline, 1 in each array, and they reside on different drives, you are stuck with having to destroy one array in order to replace 1 drive to fix the other array. If you had unused slots, you could add a drive to make the recovery, but have to do 4 rebuilds to complete the process.

    2) delete the array and make a new array the full size (less a few M/B if you want to allow a slightly smaller drive be able to be used as a replacement.) reinstall and restore from backup.

    warwizard DCSP

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    Posted September 7th, 2005 13:00

    Thanks...seems impossible that no one has developed a tool to expand a RAID Array Container. 

      --Chris