Reconfigure of raid-50 on PERC 5/E with OMSA 5.1

[Jens Dueholm Christensen]

Hi

 

I'm running out of space on my MD1000 (connected to a PE2950 with a PERC5/e controller) which is populated with 9 500GB SATA disks configured as 1 RAID-50 virtual disk with a global hot spare.

 

I've read in OMSA 5.1 (havn't upgraded to 5.3 on that system yet) documentation (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/5.1/en/omss_ug/html/vdmgmt.html#1295931) that it should be possible to do a reconfigure of the virtual disk, and thus add more physical disks to the virtual disk, but I cannot find 

 

"Select Reconfigure from the Available Tasks drop-down menu." as step 4 under "To locate this task in Storage Management:" mentions.

 

What can I do, and how can I expand the raid set?

 

The documentation mentions (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/5.1/en/omss_ug/html/vdmgmt.html#1233595) this:

 

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Reconfiguring virtual disks. The Reconfigure task is not available when you have more than one virtual disk using the same set of physical disks. You can, however, reconfigure a virtual disk that is the only virtual disk residing on a set of physical disks. See "Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 1 of 3)" for more information.

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But as far as I can figure out I do not have more than 1 virtual disk, but the "Reconfigure" task is still missing.

 

I have 2 RAID-1 virtual disks in the same system where I can easily select the "Reconfigure" task in the drop-down menu, so the problem seems to be limited to the disks in the MD1000..

 

Regards,

Jens Dueholm Christensen 
Rambøll Survey IT



 

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