RE: Replacing Disk Drives With Higher Capacity

Bill,

This is most easily done by either stopping Mirroring first and/or
stopping RAID first when you are doing a small machine, as you have a
limited number of disk slots available.

Label all drives with external labels
Write serial numbers down on each drive and location on paper.
Stop Raid or mirroring.

Remove a drive from the ASP in DST
Power down and physically remove that drive, and place a new drive
in it's place.
Power up to DST and add that new drive to the ASP
Now, remove another drive from the ASP
Power down and physically remove that drive and insert a new drive.
Power up to DST and copy Drive 1 to the new drive that you just
inserted.
Power down, remove Drive 1, and move the copied drive in step above
into Drive 1, and place another new drive into the open slot.
Power up to DST, remove as many drives as you can from the ASP
Power down, physically remove those drives from the unit, and
replace with new ones
Continue with last 2 steps until all the new drives have replaced
the old drives

Start your mirroring or Raid5
Run STRASPBAL


Just don't fall asleep from too much Turkey :)

Pete

Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:08 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Replacing Disk Drives With Higher Capacity

Pete Massiello wrote:

This is an easy upgrade, just pick out a remove them from the ASP, remove
them from Mirroring, and then remove the drives from the cage, add the new
ones in (ASP & Mirror), and keep repeating. This is done via DST.

I'm going over this again since I'll likely be doing the replacement
Thanksgiving weekend. One thing I'm still not sure of is the
replacement of the load source pair. How is that done?

Bill