Dell Virtual Drive (Raid 1) expansion to larger drives
I had this question after viewing Upgrading Drives on Virtual disks RAID 1 Dell Perc 710 controller.
After completing the steps in replacing the drives to larger drives, I noticed through dell's server management software the old drive configurations still exist (did not change to reflect larger drives). I then went to the Server's disk manager (Server 2008 R2) and It still shows the old drive configuration as well.
Any ideas as to how I can change it to reflect new drive size?
After completing the steps in replacing the drives to larger drives, I noticed through dell's server management software the old drive configurations still exist (did not change to reflect larger drives). I then went to the Server's disk manager (Server 2008 R2) and It still shows the old drive configuration as well.
Any ideas as to how I can change it to reflect new drive size?
Brian B
You'll have to rescan/refresh to pick up the new changes and then extend the volume.
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I've rebooted the server and that still didn't work
What firmware do you have on your H710? Have you tried to reconfigure the virtual disk in OMSA? What size were the disks before and after? Has the second rebuild completed yet?
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I have the latest firmware installed 21.3.5-0002. When you say reconfigure virtual disk in OMSA, what should it be reconfigured to without destroying data? Yes, second rebuild completed days ago. The original size in OMSA was 136GB. New size is 600GB. Both OMSA and server Disk Management utility show the drive sizes as 136GB
You have to select the virtual disk and select a new size (or the whole of the free space). It's not data destructive but backup first anyway just for safety.
Either that or you can create a second virtual disk using the free space which would show up as a second disk in Windows disk mangler.
Either that or you can create a second virtual disk using the free space which would show up as a second disk in Windows disk mangler.
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I don't have that option in OMSA under virtual disk. Options are:
Reconfigure
Delete
Check consistency
Assign Hot Spare
Blink
Unblink
Rename
Change policy
slow initialize
fast initialize
replace member disk
I need to have the same drive letter for the free space.
Reconfigure
Delete
Check consistency
Assign Hot Spare
Blink
Unblink
Rename
Change policy
slow initialize
fast initialize
replace member disk
I need to have the same drive letter for the free space.
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Thank you for clarifying. Worked without issue.