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Hello experts can you guys please advise me I have scenario I need to add more disk space to File server, The file server is a VM on Hyper-V host, Hyper-V host has 2TB X 4 HDD's with RAID 1, so we get 2TB for backup and 2TB for system which has server 2012 r2 host with role of Hyper-V it has two VM's a DC1 and File Server, can you guys please help me how can i move over to Raid 5 or 6 without losing data and my VMs machines.
Thanks
Technically This may be possible since you only have 2tb of live data but it's risky so you will need another backup.
You need a minimum of 3 disks for a raid 5, so first wipe the backup disks, that's two. Then you should be able to break the primary raid 1, and wipe that drive, now you have 3 and your system is still running on the primary single disk (scary but functional). Now create a new raid5 with with 3 disks, then migrate your production data do it. Now you can add the 4th disk to the raid as a hot spare or expand the raid.
Again, just walking through how this is possible, not signing off on it being a good solution for primary performance or backups.
Indeed it is a good solution but risky and lengthy but doable I am thinking to leave backup raid array as is and follow your instructions to add more disks keep the OS running on 1 disk and takes it to RAID 6, does this make sense to you?
You should also be able to replace one of the Disk with a Bigger size and wait for it to sync, then replace the second drive and wait for it to sync, then either extend the current partitions, or create a new volume out of the unused space.
Please make sure you have viable backups before you attempt any reconfig of your storage (NB Schroedingers Backups)
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