How to monitor RAID in Solaris 10 x86 on PowerEdge 2650 with PERC 3/Di

I went through much pain with this, and the bottom line is that although the controller supports array expansion, Dell have disabled this in their Array Manager and they will not support it. If you replace the Dell driver with the LSI one (I think the controller is an LSI, though I wouldn't swear that it isn't an Adaptec) and use the LSI management software then you might be able to do it. However I would find this a scary business!

My solution was simply to create a new logical disk in the free space. This is completely safe and needs no reboots, though obviously it's clunkier having separate disks. If you really, really want a single partition then you'll have to backup then delete and recreate the array. Note that if your server has the Dell utility partition on it you need to be careful with partition imaging tools as you need to recreate the Dell utility partition or your server won't boot. I speak from (bitter) experience.

JR

A few quick searches suggest that if root/calvin isn't working when you use the racadm tool, your best bet may be to disconnect the battery on the RAC and let it drain to see if it resets to factory defaults.

All of the references to the racadm tool, whether going in via telnet or serial require that you authenticate yourself (specifically have the ConfigureDracIII permission bit). I assume the problem here is that you're working with a system that you have physical but not root access to.

I did find this musing about using the on-board jumpers to do the same thing:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.sys.pc-clone.dell/2006-04/msg00949.html

but it was speculation on the part of the original poster.