Replacing hard drives and resizing

I have a HP DL360 G3 with 2 * drives in a raid 1 config on a 2003
server. There is little space left and I want to upgrade the drives.

The raid is handled by the built in smart array 5i controller

Is it be possible to remove 1 drive and replace with larger drive and
once the raid has rebuilt remove the second drive with a larger drive
and again raid rebuilt.

Then within windows use diskpart to resize?

Is that the procedure or are there easier ways?

John
Thu May 15 17:43:46 PDT 2008

If you break the mirror you can (should be able) to clone the primary
disk to one of the new larger hard disk then rebuild the array with the
two new larger hard disk. I don't know how long you can take your
server off line but if you do it this way you still have the original
disks as a backup if you run into problems.

John

jas0n wrote:

> I have a HP DL360 G3 with 2 * drives in a raid 1 config on a 2003
> server. There is little space left and I want to upgrade the drives.
>
> The raid is handled by the built in smart array 5i controller
>
> Is it be possible to remove 1 drive and replace with larger drive and
> once the raid has rebuilt remove the second drive with a larger drive
> and again raid rebuilt.
>
> Then within windows use diskpart to resize?
>
> Is that the procedure or are there easier ways?

Bob
Fri May 16 05:55:18 PDT 2008



jas0n wrote:

> I have a HP DL360 G3 with 2 * drives in a raid 1 config on a 2003
> server. There is little space left and I want to upgrade the drives.
>
> The raid is handled by the built in smart array 5i controller
>
> Is it be possible to remove 1 drive and replace with larger drive and
> once the raid has rebuilt remove the second drive with a larger drive
> and again raid rebuilt.
>
> Then within windows use diskpart to resize?

Maybe, maybe not, does this restriction apply.

"You cannot extend the current system or boot partitions."


If so, you will need third party partition manager to resize the
partition. (perhaps have to do this before rebuilding the RAID on the
second large drive)

>
> Is that the procedure or are there easier ways?

jas0n
Sat May 17 04:13:27 PDT 2008


> > The raid is handled by the built in smart array 5i controller
> >
> > Is it be possible to remove 1 drive and replace with larger drive and
> > once the raid has rebuilt remove the second drive with a larger drive
> > and again raid rebuilt.
> >
> > Then within windows use diskpart to resize?
>
> Maybe, maybe not, does this restriction apply.
>
> "You cannot extend the current system or boot partitions."
>
>
> If so, you will need third party partition manager to resize the
> partition. (perhaps have to do this before rebuilding the RAID on the
> second large drive)

The system has c system drive and d data drive - the data drive is the
only drive needing the additional space