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Expanding Mirrored drives to larger hard drives
System is a ML350 G4 with the onboard raid controller. There are two drives, mirrored running SBS 2003. The drive has 700MB of free space and VSS, file rep, etc... has stopped working becasue of this. I would like to swap the drives one at a time to large 72GB drives waiting until they rebuild each, and then expand the array. First of all, is this possible with the controller? If not can I use Windows or a 3rd party program ( Partition Magic) to do this? I have removed all programs, logs, exchange is on a different drive as well as the page file, from the system partition. I belive adding larger drives is my last option.
16.4GB
16.4GB
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Smartarray 641 controller card, hope this helps
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16GB is the size of the system partition
Bit tight but if you follow all steps in the above document it may free up enough space. Else you'll have to change the drives. IF you raid controller and system allow it then ghosting would be the route I would take.
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All of the folders in that link have already been moved previously, public folder, client apps, exchange, etc.. all are on different drives.
Then yes you will need to upgrade the hard drives.
I would ghost off the image of the current drives using a server compatable ghost software. Then change the drives build the array and ghost back on.
Remember to mark the old drives 1 and 2 so you can put them back in in case of problems and perform a full backup before doing anything.
NeilParbrook
I would ghost off the image of the current drives using a server compatable ghost software. Then change the drives build the array and ghost back on.
Remember to mark the old drives 1 and 2 so you can put them back in in case of problems and perform a full backup before doing anything.
NeilParbrook
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With the Ghost I will most likely be using Norton Ghost, or even Acronis True Image, is one better then the other for this?
Normally 20GB (sometimes less) is ample for the system partition on SBS.
Have you read this it may help free up some space.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/maintain/movedata.mspx
How big is the system partition?
NeilParbrook