Preparing For Online Capacity Expansion; Step N. Prepare For Online Capacity Expansion - HP D5970A - NetServer - LCII Installation And Configuration Manual

7 Preparing for Online Capacity
Expansion

Step N. Prepare for Online Capacity Expansion

The HP NetRAID Online Capacity Expansion feature allows you to add new
storage capacity to drives controlled by an HP NetRAID Series adapter without
rebooting the server.
Online Capacity Expansion has these restrictions:
Online Capacity Expansion has a maximum capacity of 82 GB. Online
Capacity Expansion is not available if your physical capacity exceeds 82
GB.
You can use Online Capacity Expansion with any logical drive of RAID
level 0, 3, or 5. Capacity expansion is an offline operation only for logical
drives of RAID levels 10, 30, or 50.
You cannot use Online Capacity Expansion with an array that contains
more than one logical drive. The logical drive must be the only logical
drive in the array.
Online Capacity Expansion is supported only for the Novell NetWare and
Microsoft Windows NT operating systems. You cannot use Online
Capacity Expansion with SCO UNIX, SCO UnixWare, IBM OS/2, or
Banyan VINES.
This chapter explains how to prepare logical drives for future online expansion.
The HP NetRAID Series User Guide in Information Assistant describes how to
actually expand capacity.
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