RE: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid
Sure. It looks like that's what I'm going to have to do. But it would sure be nice and far less time consuming if I could just expand the available space to the new disk in the RAID management software then use diskpart to expand the volume without having to down the server at all. I just wasn't sure if this is typical for the less expensive HostRAID controllers in general. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid More of a question than an answer but couldn't you take an image of the drive then copy the image back. Wouldn't that then let you use the whole 500 gb? On 9/9/08, HELP_PC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Acronis Disk Director GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2008 2.28 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid I had a single disk failure in a RAID 1 and replaced the 250G drive with a 500G drive. Once that rebuilt I replaced the other 250G drive with a second 500G drive and it rebuilt again. Now, I would like to grow the partition, but I have no Expand Volume in the Adaptec Storage Manager software. It recognizes the size of the disk in the details, but no actions are available to make changes. Is this just my junky hostraid controller that is the limiting factor here or am I missing something? I have the latest Adaptec ASM software. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid
I ran into this several times on the lowest-end Compaq RAID-1 controllers. Irritated me to no end. Probably can find my bitching about it on the archives of this mailing list. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid Sure. It looks like that's what I'm going to have to do. But it would sure be nice and far less time consuming if I could just expand the available space to the new disk in the RAID management software then use diskpart to expand the volume without having to down the server at all. I just wasn't sure if this is typical for the less expensive HostRAID controllers in general. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid More of a question than an answer but couldn't you take an image of the drive then copy the image back. Wouldn't that then let you use the whole 500 gb? On 9/9/08, HELP_PC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Acronis Disk Director GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2008 2.28 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid I had a single disk failure in a RAID 1 and replaced the 250G drive with a 500G drive. Once that rebuilt I replaced the other 250G drive with a second 500G drive and it rebuilt again. Now, I would like to grow the partition, but I have no Expand Volume in the Adaptec Storage Manager software. It recognizes the size of the disk in the details, but no actions are available to make changes. Is this just my junky hostraid controller that is the limiting factor here or am I missing something? I have the latest Adaptec ASM software. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid
The RAID management software correctly reports the size of the new drives added under Direct Attached Devices, however the Logical Devices shows the smaller size of the old drives. At this point I should be able to select this array, and from the Actions menu choose expand. This simply isnt in the menu however. Diskpart says the volume cant be expanded, which I expected as a result. Oh well. I will just image the drive and redo the RAID this weekend. -- Mike Gill From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid Your logical disc may not have any more space? Unless you told the raid card to expand it, in other words there is simply free space that only your raid card see's. You can easily grow a partition online once you solve that with diskpart (Check if you can grow the system partition online, otherwise boot to a PE disc you can download free from ms). jlc _ From: HELP_PC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: I: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid Acronis Disk Director GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2008 2.28 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid I had a single disk failure in a RAID 1 and replaced the 250G drive with a 500G drive. Once that rebuilt I replaced the other 250G drive with a second 500G drive and it rebuilt again. Now, I would like to grow the partition, but I have no Expand Volume in the Adaptec Storage Manager software. It recognizes the size of the disk in the details, but no actions are available to make changes. Is this just my junky hostraid controller that is the limiting factor here or am I missing something? I have the latest Adaptec ASM software. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid
Acronis Disk Director GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2008 2.28 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid I had a single disk failure in a RAID 1 and replaced the 250G drive with a 500G drive. Once that rebuilt I replaced the other 250G drive with a second 500G drive and it rebuilt again. Now, I would like to grow the partition, but I have no Expand Volume in the Adaptec Storage Manager software. It recognizes the size of the disk in the details, but no actions are available to make changes. Is this just my junky hostraid controller that is the limiting factor here or am I missing something? I have the latest Adaptec ASM software. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid
More of a question than an answer but couldn't you take an image of the drive then copy the image back. Wouldn't that then let you use the whole 500 gb? On 9/9/08, HELP_PC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Acronis Disk Director GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2008 2.28 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Expand volume on adaptec hostraid I had a single disk failure in a RAID 1 and replaced the 250G drive with a 500G drive. Once that rebuilt I replaced the other 250G drive with a second 500G drive and it rebuilt again. Now, I would like to grow the partition, but I have no Expand Volume in the Adaptec Storage Manager software. It recognizes the size of the disk in the details, but no actions are available to make changes. Is this just my junky hostraid controller that is the limiting factor here or am I missing something? I have the latest Adaptec ASM software. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
