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Upgrading 34GB RAID 1 Drives to 70GB Drives - Using IBM ServeRaid 8.25 - IBM X Series 336
I have a IBM X Series 336 Server - Type 8837 - Model 21U that has a hardware RAID 1 using 2 - 34GB SCSI Drives.
It is using ServeRaid Manager 8.25 and a LSI Controller.
I'd like to upgrade both drives to 70GB Drives.
So far we have replaced one drive and let it be rebuilt, then we replaced the other drive and let it be rebuilt. At this point everything is functioning and both drives have been properly rebuilt, however we are unable to expand or extend the array to utilize the entire 70GB.
From past experience there should be this option using the ServeRaid Manager or the Controller BIOS, however I can find no way of doing this. This is my first experience with the server so I'm wondering if I'm missing something simple.
Thanks.
It is using ServeRaid Manager 8.25 and a LSI Controller.
I'd like to upgrade both drives to 70GB Drives.
So far we have replaced one drive and let it be rebuilt, then we replaced the other drive and let it be rebuilt. At this point everything is functioning and both drives have been properly rebuilt, however we are unable to expand or extend the array to utilize the entire 70GB.
From past experience there should be this option using the ServeRaid Manager or the Controller BIOS, however I can find no way of doing this. This is my first experience with the server so I'm wondering if I'm missing something simple.
Thanks.
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If you go into disk manager ,do you see unpartitioned space?
If W2K you need to create a new partition or use something like Volume Manager to expand the old one.
Or check out this thread:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20861878/How-can-I-Extend-C-partition-on-Win2003-remotely-without-Partition-magic.html