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May 5th, 2006 17:00

Does the Dell perc 4e/di support expansion or migration?

I have a couple extra bays on a server I am inheriting and wonedring if the dell perc 4e/di supports expanding the RAID without have to wipe the server and rebuild from scratch. Anybody know?

Thanks!
  • Mark_A_Smith

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    Posted May 5th, 2006 17:00

    Yes it does.  Here is a link to the User guide <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell> .  Read the section titled: Reconstructing Logical Drives: RAID Level Migration and Online Capacity Expansion

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    Posted May 5th, 2006 23:00

    I'm researching the same thing. The link was somewhat helpful but there's not much detail there.

    What I'm trying to do is take my current three drive RAID 5 array and add three more drives of the same size to it. The server is running Windows Server 2003 and there are two partitions on the logical drive - the 55MB utility partition that's created by the Dell Server Assistant and the C: drive. I want to add the 3 drives so a huge logical drive appears and then expand the C: drive across all the available space - without losing data and/or needing to reformat.

    Is this possible and if so might there be some additional "how to" documents?

    Thanks in advance -

    /gary

    Message Edited by gmcdonnell on 05-05-200607:11 PM

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    Posted May 8th, 2006 21:00

    I second the request for some how to's same exact situation as gmcdonnell.

    Message Edited by entropy1980 on 05-08-200605:52 PM

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    Posted May 9th, 2006 13:00

    The user guide that I already gave you covers the array expansion.  The other piece that you will need is diskpart.