Expanding virtual drive

[aibrahim.sallam]

Dears,

I have cisco ucs server with the below configuration i need to expand the virtual drive but i don't see available storage on webbios, could someone tell me the steps in details.

Server configration:
Total number of hard disks: 6
Total number of drive group: 2
HDD size: 300
Every drive group have one virtual drive configured raid5 with three hard disks.

I added new hard disk with the same size of the rest hard disks and i need to expand any virtual drive with the new hard disk.

The new hard disk status is unconfigured.



Thank you.

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[padramas]

Hello Ahmed,

Server model ? RAID controller model ?

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/raid/configuration/guide/MegaRAID.html#wp1107097

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Drives can be added to a drive group only when there is a single virtual drive present on the drive group. If there are multiple virtual drives present on the drive group, the option to add an extra disk is not available.

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If could provide the details, I will confirm above statement.

Padma

[aibrahim.sallam]

Thank you for your reply, i attached picture i got it from server check it.

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[aibrahim.sallam]

Please see this video for my server i took it.

http://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A9JtdOXmJOujW

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[padramas]

Do you get " Expand "  option  in WebIOS utility for Virtual Drive ?

Instructions here

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/raid/configuration/guide/MegaRAID.html#wp1107097

[aibrahim.sallam]

Yes i got it.

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[gsharma4]

Hi Ahmed,

Please find the below link for UCS Server RAID Guide.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/raid/configuration/guide/RAID_Config_Guide.pdf

Regards,

Gaurav