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

7 Preparing for Online Capacity
Expansion

Step M. Prepare for Online Capacity Expansion

The HP NetRAID Online Capacity Expansion feature allows you to add new
storage capacity to drives controlled by an integrated HP NetRAID controller
without rebooting the server.
Online Capacity Expansion has these restrictions:
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.
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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