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DELL ? EMC CX 300 SAN addition of new enclosure.

I have A DEll cx 300 san here...i am to add anew eclosure with 15 disks tonight..
would i require a san restart after adding the new enclosure.?
and would it be possible for me to seamlessly increase the size of an existing LUN without data loss.
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Thanks a lot friends....hope i dont have to restart as in the process i might have to restart close to 10 servers along with the san.
I can guarentee you that you will not have to restart. All clariions operate a port bypass filter on the internal fibre/scsi bus and as such can handle new targets being dynamically added. I personally have done an expansion (adding 2 new trays 1 x 73GB disk tray and 1 x 360GB ATA disk tray) online within the last 3 days. One word of caution though, it is always sensible to make sure ALL servers have recent backups before addition. It has been known that faulty trays can cause the SP's to reboot by themselves..so make sure that:
a) you have backups
b) work done out of hours if possible
c) make sure you read the notes that come with the new tray (especially the wiring diagram)

best of luck

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Make sure that you have the 60 drive option installed. The array will only 'see' 15 drives if you haven't.

Right click on the top level, select Properties, select Software. You should see the 60 drive optiojn in this list. If it isn't installed, you'll need to get that organised!
I thought my answer was spot-on (but I would, wouldn't I :-)...)
Thought my comments were spot on too.

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