Hi all
We have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with a Perc6/1 controller card in it.
We're currently using four of the six hard drive bays in a RAID 10 configuration, running VMWare Esx Server 3i 3.5.0.
Each drive is a 300GB/17k SAS.
How do I go about increasing the capacity of this configuration?
Do I have to just rebuild the whole Array or can I swap out the small drives for large drives one as the system rebuilds the array on each new drive?
We tried putting larger drives in the two extra drive bay hoping that would all us to create another Virtual data disk but the controller only sees them as hot swappable spares?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
We have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with a Perc6/1 controller card in it.
We're currently using four of the six hard drive bays in a RAID 10 configuration, running VMWare Esx Server 3i 3.5.0.
Each drive is a 300GB/17k SAS.
How do I go about increasing the capacity of this configuration?
Do I have to just rebuild the whole Array or can I swap out the small drives for large drives one as the system rebuilds the array on each new drive?
We tried putting larger drives in the two extra drive bay hoping that would all us to create another Virtual data disk but the controller only sees them as hot swappable spares?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.