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