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I forgot - that was manual for ESX console<br />
Find right instructions for RCLI in RCLI command guide <br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_rcli.pdf" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_rcli.pdf</a>
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I forgot - that was manual for ESX console
Find right instructions for RCLI in RCLI command guide

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_rcli.pdf [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_rcli.pdf]

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a Possible solution, I Have built another ESXi Server as temorary store for the guest operating system whilst i recreate the Array from scratch but everytime i try to migrate the guest using virtuakl centre &nbsp;to the other esx server its gets all the way to 99% and then times out. This was my favoured route as it mean minimal down time. Anythought on what could be causing that, i have tried rebooting both hosts to no avail.<br />
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a Possible solution, I Have built another ESXi Server as temorary store for the guest operating system whilst i recreate the Array from scratch but everytime i try to migrate the guest using virtuakl centre  to the other esx server its gets all the way to 99% and then times out. This was my favoured route as it mean minimal down time. Anythought on what could be causing that, i have tried rebooting both hosts to no avail.




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Im looking to upgrade the existing Raid5 array on a few of our ML350 G5 server. only snag is that they are running ESXi 3,5 so cannot use the windows based &nbsp;configuration tool.<br />
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Current setup is 3 x 146GB SAS drives in Raid 5 Configuration i would like to increase this to 8 drives still Raid 5 with Hot spare.<br />
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Im presuming i cannot do this with destroying the ESXi datastore or am i wrong?<br />
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regards<br />
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Im looking to upgrade the existing Raid5 array on a few of our ML350 G5 server. only snag is that they are running ESXi 3,5 so cannot use the windows based  configuration tool.

Current setup is 3 x 146GB SAS drives in Raid 5 Configuration i would like to increase this to 8 drives still Raid 5 with Hot spare.

Im presuming i cannot do this with destroying the ESXi datastore or am i wrong?

regards




Increasing size of Raid 5 Array on ML350 G5 with ESXi 3.5 installed

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