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?
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
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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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