Increase HD Space

[Guest Wackamo]

We have a Compaq DL360 running Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server

2003 with a RAID 1 array. I have swapped out the 36GB hard drives

with 172GB drives and allowed them to rebuild the array to the

previous 36GB. Now I want to expand the size to use the full 172 or

create a new partition leaving the current 36GB partition as a C

drive. I have heard of using a tool like partition magic but I have

never used this for servers. I would appreciate your comments and or

suggestions.

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: Increase HD Space

 

For the former try one of these.

 

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirector/

http://www.partition-manager.com/corporate/server/

 

 

The latter can be done with Disk Management snap-in. Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc

 

 

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"Wackamo" wrote:

> We have a Compaq DL360 running Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server

> 2003 with a RAID 1 array. I have swapped out the 36GB hard drives

> with 172GB drives and allowed them to rebuild the array to the

> previous 36GB. Now I want to expand the size to use the full 172 or

> create a new partition leaving the current 36GB partition as a C

> drive. I have heard of using a tool like partition magic but I have

> never used this for servers. I would appreciate your comments and or

> suggestions.

[Guest Holz]

Re: Increase HD Space

 

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:35:11 -0800, Wackamo wrote:

> suggestions.

 

How did you swap and end up with 36 GB? Did you use the raid array

software to expand?

You can image your C drive offline using Acronis bootable media and then

build you array to 172 GB, restore your 36 GB partition and create the

rest.

 

 

 

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[Guest Hamdan Iftikhar]

Re: Increase HD Space

 

how did you even allow the disk to rebuild - did you just remove a 32 pop in

the 172 and allow it to build then remove the first 32 and pop in the second

and allow it to build - if so that is not a good way to do it as essentially

you are killing all your free space i.e. 172 - 32 gone to waste i think best

way to do it is to take a full system back up including a system state -

pull your disks out - plug in he new disk and use array config util to

mirror them up - then install a base OS - and your back up utility softare

then initiate a restore - that is how i would do it - actually i dont even

think you can expand the array once you have it set up as RAID 0 without

breaking it which mean data loss.

 

let me know what you think ,....

thanks

 

 

 

 

"Holz" <none@none.com> wrote in message

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> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:35:11 -0800, Wackamo wrote:

>

>> suggestions.

>

> How did you swap and end up with 36 GB? Did you use the raid array

> software to expand?

> You can image your C drive offline using Acronis bootable media and then

> build you array to 172 GB, restore your 36 GB partition and create the

> rest.

>

>

>

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[Guest Wackamo]

Re: Increase HD Space

 

On Dec 28 2007, 12:58 am, "Hamdan Iftikhar" <hamdan.iftik...@hp.com>

wrote:

> how did you even allow the disk to rebuild - did you just remove a 32 pop in

> the 172 and allow it to build then remove the first 32 and pop in the second

> and allow it to build - if so that is not a good way to do it as essentially

> you are killing all your free space i.e. 172 - 32 gone to waste i think best

> way to do it is to take a full system back up including a system state -

> pull your disks out - plug in he new disk and use array config util to

> mirror them up - then install a base OS - and your back up utility softare

> then initiate a restore - that is how i would do it - actually i dont even

> think you can expand the array once you have it set up as RAID 0 without

> breaking it which mean data loss.

>

> let me know what you think ,....

> thanks

>

> "Holz" <n...@none.com> wrote in message

>

> news:476fe745$0$9534$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...

>

>

>

> > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:35:11 -0800,Wackamowrote:

>

> >> suggestions.

>

> > How did you swap and end up with 36 GB? Did you use the raid array

> > software to expand?

> > You can image your C drive offline using Acronis bootable media and then

> > build you array to 172 GB, restore your 36 GB partition and create the

> > rest.

>

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I have received various opinions and at this point it appears that I

can change the array to dynamic and expand or shrink as needed. I

plan to create a second partition, move Exchange to it, then use the

existing partition for the OS only.