kickballmvp2006
Technical User
I have an IBM 5100 series server that I want to expand
the hard drive capacity of. The C drive has two 9GB hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The D drive has three 9GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Then there is one 9GB drive that is a hot spare (so six 9GB drives in all).
I want to upgrade so that the C drive is 20 - 30GB and the D drive is 80 - 100GB.
Here is how I believe I would do it:
I understand for the C drive I need two 20GB drives and I would need three 40GB drives for the D drive (or am I wrong?)
I'm not totally sure about what the hot spare would be (20 GB or 40GB).
I believe that would take care of what parts I need to order.
Now onto installing the drives.
Since it's an IBM server, it has the ServeRAID Manager software installed. How would I go about replacing the drives in the C and D drives with the new hard disks? Since they are hot swappable, I wouldn't think any reboots would be needed. Is it as easy as swapping one drive out with another, letting it rebuild, until I have all the new drives in place and then using something like partition magic to expand the partitions?
Help is much appreciated.
the hard drive capacity of. The C drive has two 9GB hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The D drive has three 9GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Then there is one 9GB drive that is a hot spare (so six 9GB drives in all).
I want to upgrade so that the C drive is 20 - 30GB and the D drive is 80 - 100GB.
Here is how I believe I would do it:
I understand for the C drive I need two 20GB drives and I would need three 40GB drives for the D drive (or am I wrong?)
I'm not totally sure about what the hot spare would be (20 GB or 40GB).
I believe that would take care of what parts I need to order.
Now onto installing the drives.
Since it's an IBM server, it has the ServeRAID Manager software installed. How would I go about replacing the drives in the C and D drives with the new hard disks? Since they are hot swappable, I wouldn't think any reboots would be needed. Is it as easy as swapping one drive out with another, letting it rebuild, until I have all the new drives in place and then using something like partition magic to expand the partitions?
Help is much appreciated.