Running out of disk space

[vbajock]

Running out of disk space on Sharepoint server, best option is to add a drive. Can Sharepoint be configured to span onto other drives?

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

What kind of disk configuration are you running at the moment?

If your configuration does not allow you to expand an existing array then adding another drive (and creating a new volume) you could configure so that for example your logfiles, backups etc. will be stored onto that one.
If you are running SQL2000 you can also reconfigure that for exmaple the SQL Transaction logfiles will be stored on this other disk (this however takes some configuration within SQL server).


In one of our environments I am running HW mirrored disk on the webserver having two partitions. One for the system itself and the second partition for all the logfiles and IIS data, backupfiles etc. Then I have a separate machine for the SQL databases, which is configured with a RAID5 which allows me to simply add more disks and expand the RAID array

Regards,
Thomas

 

[vbajock]

When you add more disks to the array, do they extend the space on the C: drive of the server or do they create additional drive letters?

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

This depends on how the disk and array configuration is done on the server.

My disks on the webserver are set as Dynamic disks in windows so I can extend them with more diskspace, without having to create another drive (driveletter).

For my SQL server I have a RAID5 configured as one single partition and I can simply just push in more disk in the diskcabinet and extend the partition.

If you are running your system (C:] drive as a Basic disk I am not sure that you can upgrade it to a Dynamic disk and extend the partition. Microsoft has some documentation regarding this so I would suggest looking at Microsoft for that documentation.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[vbajock]

Thanks. I'll talk to our network guy. Sounds like it won't be a problem if it is configured a certain way.