Add new drive to existing RAID 5 array (oce) on RS2WC080?

[bmauk]

I am using the RS2WC080 RAID card, running the latest version of Web Console 2 (14.11.01.00).

I am trying to add a new drive to the existing RAID 5 array (online capacity expansion), which I know this card supports.

I currently have 5x WD 1TB drives in the RAID 5 array and am trying to add a 6th.

The documentation for Web Console 2 seems out of date and I cannot figure out how to do this.

Please help!

[David_A_Intel]

Let me provide some assistance on this one. I have just put a system together so I can share the possible screens you are going to get.

• First go to the Logical Tab and right click the Drive Group for your RAID 5

• Then, you need to choose the RAID level (in your case we are going to maintain the same RAID level 5).

• Select the drive you are going to add to the Disk Group.

• Review the summary of the changes and click Finish to start the process.

• Under the Dashboard you can check the progress of the operation.

PS: Make sure you extend your partition once the operation is completed. Feel free to contact our http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/contactsupport Intel Customer Support team for proper follow up of this process.

[bmauk]

David

Thanks for the reply on this. This is the path that I though was most correct, but here is where my issue comes in…

I want to maintain my same RAID level obviously, but the drop down only allows me to select RAID 0 and there is no option for RAID 5.

Do you know what would prevent RAID 5 from showing up in that drop down list, especially since that's my current level?

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[David_A_Intel]

Is your RAID 5 partitioned or separated in multiple Virtual Drives?

[bmauk]

I have one single virtual drive within which I have the 5 physical drives in RAID 5.

[David_A_Intel]

At this point, I would recommend contacting our http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/contactsupport Intel Customer Support team to assist you on getting that drive added to the array.

[bmauk]

This is entirely my oversight....

Ill post what my issue is so that if any other person runs into this issue they can see what the resolution was.

After taking a break for a few days and looking at it with fresh eyes, I realized that this drive was from a previous rig and I had thought that I had formatted it and removed all data before I broke down that other server for parts. Well I didn't, and the disk I was trying to add was itself part of a previous RAID array. I figured this out by see Foreign, Unconfigured Good as its status: with the foreign part being Foreign configuration.

So after formatting and removing all of the configuration/data from the disk I reattached it to the controller and was able to follow the steps above to add it to the virtual drive.

Thanks for the help.

best

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