Guest jas0n Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 I have a HP DL360 G3 with 2 * drives in a raid 1 config on a 2003 server. There is little space left and I want to upgrade the drives. The raid is handled by the built in smart array 5i controller Is it be possible to remove 1 drive and replace with larger drive and once the raid has rebuilt remove the second drive with a larger drive and again raid rebuilt. Then within windows use diskpart to resize? Is that the procedure or are there easier ways?
Guest John John (MVP) Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 Re: Replacing hard drives and resizing If you break the mirror you can (should be able) to clone the primary disk to one of the new larger hard disk then rebuild the array with the two new larger hard disk. I don't know how long you can take your server off line but if you do it this way you still have the original disks as a backup if you run into problems. John jas0n wrote: > I have a HP DL360 G3 with 2 * drives in a raid 1 config on a 2003 > server. There is little space left and I want to upgrade the drives. > > The raid is handled by the built in smart array 5i controller > > Is it be possible to remove 1 drive and replace with larger drive and > once the raid has rebuilt remove the second drive with a larger drive > and again raid rebuilt. > > Then within windows use diskpart to resize? > > Is that the procedure or are there easier ways?
Guest Bob I Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 Re: Replacing hard drives and resizing jas0n wrote: > I have a HP DL360 G3 with 2 * drives in a raid 1 config on a 2003 > server. There is little space left and I want to upgrade the drives. > > The raid is handled by the built in smart array 5i controller > > Is it be possible to remove 1 drive and replace with larger drive and > once the raid has rebuilt remove the second drive with a larger drive > and again raid rebuilt. > > Then within windows use diskpart to resize? Maybe, maybe not, does this restriction apply. "You cannot extend the current system or boot partitions." If so, you will need third party partition manager to resize the partition. (perhaps have to do this before rebuilding the RAID on the second large drive) > > Is that the procedure or are there easier ways?
Guest jas0n Posted May 17, 2008 Posted May 17, 2008 Re: Replacing hard drives and resizing > > The raid is handled by the built in smart array 5i controller > > > > Is it be possible to remove 1 drive and replace with larger drive and > > once the raid has rebuilt remove the second drive with a larger drive > > and again raid rebuilt. > > > > Then within windows use diskpart to resize? > > Maybe, maybe not, does this restriction apply. > > "You cannot extend the current system or boot partitions." > > > If so, you will need third party partition manager to resize the > partition. (perhaps have to do this before rebuilding the RAID on the > second large drive) The system has c system drive and d data drive - the data drive is the only drive needing the additional space
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