Grow an array on a PERC 5/i

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djBon2112

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I know one of the features of the controller is Online Capacity Expansion, but I don't know how to do this!

Background:

Perc 5/i with BBU
Currently a 4-disk RAID 5 array, adding a 5th disk which I want to integrate
Original Dell firmware (I don't want to flash until someone tells me it won't damage my array!)
Tried using the BIOS (no options), Dell's management tools (won't install) and the LSI MegaRAID tools (finds the array and the disk, but I see no option to add the disk to the array).

Anyone know?
 
If it's not in the card's BIOS I guess it's going to have to be in their software management suite; for my Adaptec card, there isn't any options for OCE in the card's BIOS, but their software management suite (Adaptec Storage Manager) has many options that allows for changing RAID levels, creating/deleting arrays, OCE, etc....

When you mean it won't install, why not?
 
Hope this helps

To increase the capacity of a virtual disk, follow these steps:

Click the Logical View tab in the left panel.
Right-click on a virtual disk icon and select Advanced Operations >> Reconstruction Wizard.
The Reconstruction Wizard window appears.
Click Add Drive.
In the top panel of the next screen, select the disk drives that you want to add to the virtual disk and click the down-arrow button to add them. If you change your mind, click the up-arrow button to move a selected drive back to the top panel.
When you are finished adding disk drives, click Next to continue.
If desired, select a new RAID level from the drop-down menu in the lower right of the next screen. Review the displayed information for the newly expanded virtual disk.
Click Finish to accept the new configuration.
A Reconstruct operation begins on the virtual disk. You can monitor the progress of the reconstruction in the Group Show Progress window. To do this, select Group Operations >> Show Progress.
Click to expand...
 
nitrobass24 said:
Hope this helps
Click to expand...

Where does that come from? I've got the LSI tool (MegaRAID Storage Manager or whatver).

By "won't install", the Dell software tells me that my server isn't compatable and fails.

If anyone knows a solid, dependable, complete guide to getting ANY sort of MegaRAID/Dell management tools working on Debian Etch x64 also, please tell me how! That's my main OS on this server, but I got so damn fed up with trying to hack a bunch of unrelated rpms into debs and trying to install them, that I just went and installed Windows Server 2003 on a spare hard drive!
 
thats in the megaraid storage manager help file...im on windows
 
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