Cisco IMC - Adding additional HDD

[steve sutherland]

Hi

I have purchased some additional HDDs for my Cisco UCS C240 M3 server

Currently I have 16x 300GB SAS drives in a RAID 10 array and would like to add 8 more.

In IMC - Storage - Physical Drive Info they show up as unconfigured good.

How can I either;

1. Add the additional HDDs to the existing array, without deleting the exising data?

2. Add another Virtual Drive in RAID 10?

The server is running ESXi v5.5

Thanks

[steve sutherland]

Found it under the Controller INFO tab.

[Keny Perez · Accepted solution]

Steve,

Adding more disks to your existing array without losing data should be an option of your storage array 1-to work, I think it is called Online Expansion something for the LSI RAID controllers.

2-I hope this helps you: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c-series-rack-servers/whitepaper_c07-732029.html  ; <<< I hope you meant to add another virtual RAID 10, if not let me know.

-Kenny

[Keny Perez]

Steve,

Was the previous information of help?

-Kenny