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Expand Disk space for HP Proliant server

My data drive D:\ is out of space. Can I just simply replace the data disk partition with larger HDD and only restore the data from my backup, supposing D: contain only data ?

Can I still reboot to my Window OS and then use the HP Array Utilize to configure the new disks ? Any steps / guideline to show how it works ?

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JeffG2583

How are your physical disks currently configured and at what RAID level?

X-treem

First you need to expand the physical disk,
if it's a RAID0 or RAID 1, you need a replacement (or additional RAID)
if it's a RAID5, you can probably add an extra diask to the array and expand on it using the array configuration utility,

next the disk needs to be expanded in the OS, if you're running 2008, you can use disk management without having to reboot

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Yes, Array Configuration Utility has been installed. The Window (C:) is on 2 x HDD in RAID0 and Data (E:) in on 5 x HDD in RAID5.
To clarify my understanding,.

I could replace all the 5 HDD with larger size and then configure the RAID under Window environment. Afterwards, I could restore the backup.

Or,

I could replace one RAID5, one at a time and replace another one after it rebuilts the RAID.
Afterwards, I could expand the disk under Window 2008. In this case, I don't need to rebuild the data.

Any comment ? Which one is better ?

Thanks

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