Migrate/Extend raid1 volume to larger disks on Dell PowerEdge 2950 with perc 6/i – OMSA

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I have a dell PowerEdge 2950 with perc 6/i running raid1, there were 2 250GB drives in which have been replaced (one at a time) with 1TB drives.

So now I have the a virtual disk that is 232.25GB and 698.75GB (Free) that I would like to extend/reconfigure the virtual drive to utilize.

From what I understand my plan was to do the following:

  • Take a full backup. DONE!
  • Replace the drives one by one and wait for a rebuild to complete.
    DONE!
  • Use Dell OpenManage Server Administrator to extend the size of the
    physical RAID 1 volume on the disk from 232.25GB to full 1TB, using
    the reconfigure option Here is where I'm running into an issue
  • Extend the partitions in Windows…

When running the Reconfigure it only has Raid0 as an option with the 464.50GB min/max Listed… I am not sure whats going on here.

Here are screens of the options:
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Any help getting this sorted would be greatly appreciated!

Best Answer

It is not possible to directly expand the virtual disk with a perc6. Double check your backup and if it is fine, you can:

  • Delete the virtual disk
  • Create a new virtual disk, using RAID 1
  • Do not initialize the disk
  • Do not set advanced options

It should have all of the space available now with your old data intact.

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