Adding Hard Disk Drives; Inserting Additional Hard Disk Drives; Configuring A Raid Device - NEC EXP320R Maintenance Manual

Chapter 2 Configuring and Upgrading the System
2.5

Adding Hard Disk Drives

To add hard disk drives, follow the steps below. The hard disk drives should be added with the power of the
CPU/IO module 0 and 1 turned on.

2.5.1 Inserting Additional Hard Disk Drives

Insert additional hard disk drives into empty slots in the order of the slot number from lowest to highest. Note
that two disks should be inserted into the correct locations to become a pair of slots that supports the
mirroring process.

2.5.2 Configuring a RAID Device

This section describes how to configure a new RAID device on the added disks.
1. Run esxcli -s <IP address or hostname of ESXi host> storage mpm list.
2. Check the added disks in the information displayed.
The following is an example that two disks are inserted into a pair of slots for the slot 1.
# esxcli –s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx storage mpm list
Info
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mpm0 : 292968640 blocks (286102MB) [2/2]
\_ vmhba0:C0:T1:L0 (10/40/1)
\_ vmhba1:C0:T1:L0 (11/40/1)
Unused disks:
- vmhba0:C0:T2:L0 (10/40/2)
- vmhba1:C0:T2:L0 (11/40/2)
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Note Use a new hard disk drive to be added with the physical format completed in advance. The
specifications of the two drives must be the same.
To add more than one hard disk drive, install (insert) one by one.
Important
These operations must be performed by the root user.
Note
If the target disk drive has a data contained in it, the existing data will be erased by
configuring RAID system. Make sure that the target disk drive does not contain any
necessary data.
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