This is what I did last May when I replaced (5) 72 GB drives with (5) 300 GB drives on HP DL hardware: 1) BACKUP Data 2) Configure array controller for high priority on REBUILD 3) Shut down server 4) pull #1 72 GB drive 5) insert #1 300GB 6) let server auto-configure new drive 7) when finished, reboot server (new 300GB drive will be using 72GB to match array) - should finish in 1 hour 8) test server applications Repeat above steps for each of the 72GB drives until all have been replaced w/ 300GB drives. 1) BACKUP data. 2) configure array controller for high priority on EXTENDING the array 2) Extend array to use all 300GB of space on Hard Drives 3) Extend logical drive to use all available space
________________________________ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Upgrading Hard Drives on DL380 G3 Mirror I need to upgrade a dl380 g3 from dual 146 drives to dual 300 drives. I have backups of the data and do not want to rebuild the server from scratch (unless I have to). Can I simply take the following steps: * remove a drive to break the mirror, put in the new drive, let it rebuild and complete * remove the second drive, put in the second new drive, and let it rebuild and complete * Use Acronis Disk Director to resize the partition to 300 GB Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
