I have a home lab with a Dell R710 running ESXI (free), its not quite run out of storage but it's got to the stage where I need to think what I do next.
Its got a PERC6/i raid controller and 6 x 2TB drives in a raid I can't remember (I think RAID 6 as I have usable capacity about 7.28TB)
Question 1;
AIUI PERC6 is generally limited to 2TB Drives, so I will need to replace this with a H700 RAID controller, if I do this will it break the existing RAID or would it just continue working and all data remain.
If it doesn't break it
Question 2;
I assume I'd just replace each drive one by one and wait for the raid to rebuild on the new drive before moving onto the next.
Question 3;
Once this is done I assume I would need to expand the volume in the Raid controller and then within ESXI before it's available to my VMs?
Its got a PERC6/i raid controller and 6 x 2TB drives in a raid I can't remember (I think RAID 6 as I have usable capacity about 7.28TB)
Question 1;
AIUI PERC6 is generally limited to 2TB Drives, so I will need to replace this with a H700 RAID controller, if I do this will it break the existing RAID or would it just continue working and all data remain.
If it doesn't break it
Question 2;
I assume I'd just replace each drive one by one and wait for the raid to rebuild on the new drive before moving onto the next.
Question 3;
Once this is done I assume I would need to expand the volume in the Raid controller and then within ESXI before it's available to my VMs?
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