basic questions about adding disk(s) to a 2950

[Ben Scott]

On 3/1/07, Ernie Buford <ebuford at uvm.edu> wrote:
> On a 2950 with 2 at 73GB SAS on PERC5i, 1x6 backplane,
> RAID-1....
> What about adding a single disk to this server?

  Shouldn't be a problem.  All the PERC's going back to at least a
PERC 3 support non-destructive reconfiguration of logical volumes.
You can do it in the BIOS utility (pre-boot), or with OMSA, or with
stand-alone tools (if they're available).

> Could more drives be added with each managed individually & separate
> from the existing mirror?

  Yes.

> Further, if multiple RAID volumes are possible it seems
> that I could conceivably run 3 mirrors @2 disks, right?

  You could make three different mirror sets of two disks each (six
physical disks total).  Or two mirror sets and one RAID-5.  Or
whatever.

-- Ben