Hard drive on server out of space - want to upgrade it.
HI there, I have inherited a small business server 2003 to look after and the hard drive/s have become full.
The server is a HP Proliant ML350 G5 with a E200i RAID Controller.
The HDD set-up is 2 x HP 146gb x 10k RPM SAS 2.5 Hot Plug. Set-up in a RAID 1 Mirror.
The system has Ultra Back 8.2.2 and is taking system images once a week as well as a file by file backup to a USB tb hard drive..
So we purchase 2 new hard larger drives of the same type.
Being a bit of a novice, I think there are 2 approaches for me to take.
1) Recreate the RAID for the 2 new drives then use the Ultraback UBDR Gold disk to recover the backed up Image to the new hard drives then alter the new Partition sizes to suite the new array.
or
2) Swap one of the drives for the new larger drive then (hopefully) the RAID will rebuild itself, once completed repeat for the other drive. If the RAID does not rebuilt it's self I would have to do that manually via the BIOS. Once completed, manually resize the partitions to suite.
Is there another approach, which would I be best to look at?
Cheers Jason
The server is a HP Proliant ML350 G5 with a E200i RAID Controller.
The HDD set-up is 2 x HP 146gb x 10k RPM SAS 2.5 Hot Plug. Set-up in a RAID 1 Mirror.
The system has Ultra Back 8.2.2 and is taking system images once a week as well as a file by file backup to a USB tb hard drive..
So we purchase 2 new hard larger drives of the same type.
Being a bit of a novice, I think there are 2 approaches for me to take.
1) Recreate the RAID for the 2 new drives then use the Ultraback UBDR Gold disk to recover the backed up Image to the new hard drives then alter the new Partition sizes to suite the new array.
or
2) Swap one of the drives for the new larger drive then (hopefully) the RAID will rebuild itself, once completed repeat for the other drive. If the RAID does not rebuilt it's self I would have to do that manually via the BIOS. Once completed, manually resize the partitions to suite.
Is there another approach, which would I be best to look at?
Cheers Jason
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Sorry, also, I meant to ask. I have Acronis Disk Disk director 9.0. I assume this will install OK on SBS 2003 and be OK for managing my partition size.
If you don't need to alter your OS partition, then you won't need to bother with any third party tools. DiskPart will allow you to extend the data partition once the array is extended. The limitation is only on resizing OS partitions. You will want to use the HP ACU to manage the array.
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All suggested solutions would have worked but AJS2011NZ was the easiest hence most points. I would have chosen Noxcho's option as a close second as this also was quite easy. The added benefit to have the server on brand new hard drives (it's over 3 years old now) was also considered a bonus hence completley retiring the old drives.
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The Array has been setup with 2 Partitions. 1 For the OS and 1 for the company data. The OS partition has 20gb Spare (which I dont want to touch) and the data partition runs out from time to time.
AJS... I like the ease of your suggestion but (and I hope this does not sound too stupid), how do I: "check the raid status", "Offline a disk" and "check that the Raid is healthy". Also, are you saying I can use Clonezilla to resize my data partition once the new hard drives are in place?
Regard Jason.