No, the PERC6 does not support OCE in this context. There are two forms of online capacity expansion. The PERC6 only supports #2. On controllers that support #1 the controller is basically performing a retag, it is rewriting the virtual disk size parameter. Changing RAID levels is RAID level migration.
Hi folks, and thanks in advance. The other posts I have searched out here have been helpful, but, have not exactly matched my issue, so here I am. :-) 2950 with 6/i controller. The 6i is responsible for 6 x 1tb SATA drives, with a single virtual disk for data storage. (not booting an OS) Windows 2012r2 server on the system, OpenManage admin version 8.5.0 Bios as up to date as it should be. In an effort to expand the capacity of the system, within it's physical chassis, I have one by one, replaced the 1tb drives with new 2tb drives, and let the raid-5 rebuild each time. That has happened successfully, and the virtual drive shows green light. All 6 of the new drives are identical, right down to the revision number. All 6 show a total capacity of 1862.5Gb, used raid space of 931.0Gb, and avaialble capacity of 931.5Gb.(the last replaced showed zero capacity avaialble, until I rebooted, now it's fine too) If I choose Reconfigure the virtual disk, it shows me all of the drives already selected, and it's greyed out. If I hit continue, the only option it presents me with, is to create a Raid-0 with a max capacity of 5,586Gb. (which doesn't even really add up, although that is half of 11tb, not far off the 12tb total physical capacity prsent) I understood that I should be able to extend my VD by this approach, but am not seeing any options in that regard... do I need to go into Bios for this? Or is there something I am doing incorrectly? thanks much, in advance! Andrew
Extend single Raid-5 on a Perc 6/i and 2950