We have a a server with a PERC 6/i controller. There is currently a single virtual disk on that controller, it's a RAID 5 disk with 4 physical drives. We'd like to add 3 drives to the virtual disk and convert it to RAID 6, but aren't sure if we can do that without data loss.
The Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager will allow us to make this change using the reconstruction wizard, but it does not indicate if the reconstruction will be destructive…it does 'strongly reccomend' backing up data.
One additional note, the server boots off a drive that is on this virtual disk if that makes a difference.
Thanks,
jon
Best Answer
I don't have direct experience with doing a reconstruction, but three general points to keep in mind when you do anything to the raid subsystem:
Personally I am very wary of anything that would change something that low level to your system without any data loss or corruption. But then again people keep telling me I'm way to paranoid sometimes.