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Adding HDD on DL380 running RAID 1

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by nisheikh

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HI All,
I have a DL380 and currently I have two HDD in it running RAID 1.
Now I want to add space to it and got two more HDD can someone please help how should I do this?
It is running linux.

Thanks in Advance.
Cheers
Naveed

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by maniacman

I know HP servers very well, and based on what I can tell you, you won't be able to expand your current RAID 1 simply by adding more drives because it's a mirror, not a striped set like RAID 5. What you can do is to setup another separate RAID stripe and logical drive with the new hard drives, but you won't be able to expand upon your current RAID 1 stripe. What generation of DL380 is it? G2, G3, G4, or G5?

by bbouldin

Intall your new drives, boot your SmartStart CD, and run the Array Configuration Utility. It will tell you if you can add the drives to the existing array (disk group) or if you need to create a new one. It will also tell you if you can extend the size of the existing logical drives or if you have to create new ones. By the way, if you're adding drives that are bigger than the originals, create a new array (disk group).

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