RAID 0 – How to Remove Physical Disk from Virtual Disk

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I have a few Dell PowerEdge T430 servers each with two physical disks configured as one RAID 0 virtual disk.
In the OS the drive is partitioned for /boot and the rest is left for LVM (/home/, /var/, etc).

I need to temporarily move one of the physical disks to another server.

If I resize the LV and VG to fit inside the single physical disk, is it possible to remove the physical disk from the virtual disk (RAID 0) configured in iDrac?

I don't know if it is important but the Controller on the virtual disk is PERC H730 Adapter.

EDIT
The question identified as a possible duplicate explains how different RAIDs works. Not if or how you can resize Virtual Disk on Dell PowerEdge server.

Best Answer

Your best bet will be to externally back up all of your data from the RAID0, then restore once your new vdisk is configured on the other server. There's just no way to shrink a RAID0 once it's set up, at least in a Poweredge (and every other platform I've played with)

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