asked on PERC 6/i RAID5 adding disks
hi community. Quick question about RAID5 and how they rebuild on the PERC 6/i adapters in a Dell PowerEdge R410.
I have an R410 with 3 physical disks.
2TB
1TB
250GB
Of course the array only sees 250GB of the two TB drives which gives me a rough total of about 500GB of usable disk space. My question is this :: if I replace the 250GB drive with a 1TB will the array incorporate the extra disk space after it's rebuilt the array? Will I end up with 2TB of total usable space without having to create a new VD and lose my existing data?
My hunch is yes, I can replace the 250GB drive with one that is larger and the array will rebuild with the new drive and space allotted as usable space.
Thanks for the help.
I have an R410 with 3 physical disks.
2TB
1TB
250GB
Of course the array only sees 250GB of the two TB drives which gives me a rough total of about 500GB of usable disk space. My question is this :: if I replace the 250GB drive with a 1TB will the array incorporate the extra disk space after it's rebuilt the array? Will I end up with 2TB of total usable space without having to create a new VD and lose my existing data?
My hunch is yes, I can replace the 250GB drive with one that is larger and the array will rebuild with the new drive and space allotted as usable space.
Thanks for the help.
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rindi
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Yep. (I put 250, but meant 500 ;))
Some RAID controllers have functions that allow you to expand the array after you have changed the disk and waited for it to finish syncing. But I don't know whether your RAID controller has that function. Also, even if the RAID array has been expanded, your OS's partitions will still be the same. You have to move/extend then either from within the OS or via 3rd party utilities if you don't just want to add new partitions, but rather want them resized.
rindi ... The PERC 6 does not support this. It is supported on the H700 and newer/higher.
Curious as to the reason for the grade of 'B'.
I thought so, or you would have mentioned it in your first comment. I just wanted to tell the asker that it depends on the raid controller, and even that if the controller supports it, it isn't that easy. A backup, create new array, restore is often faster and easier.
So the original VD will remain in tact as approximately 500GB of usable disk space and the second VD will be 1.5TB. I'm using VMware vCenter Server over an ESXi 5.5 foundation so I assume I will just rescan for a new datastore and it will pick up the secondary VD.