Setting Up Your Array For Capacity Expansion - HP D5970A - NetServer - LCII Configuration Manual

Chapter 7

Setting Up Your Array for Capacity Expansion

This section makes the following assumptions:
You have already configured your HP NetRAID system as discussed in
Chapter 5. You should have created only one logical drive per array.
For example, you might have four physical drives of 4 GB. You might
have configured these four drives as a single RAID 5 logical drive. This
produces a logical drive with 12 GB of real storage capacity, with 4 GB
used for parity.
You have initialized your logical drives.
NOTE It is important to initialize your logical drives because, if the
drives have been previously configured under an operating
system, there may be residual partition/format information
that can subsequently cause misrepresentation of logical drives
under the Windows NT Disk Administrator.
You have already installed Windows NT as discussed in Chapter 6.
1. Enable Virtual Sizing.
1. Restart the host HP NetServer, and watch for the message:
Option: Experienced users may press <Ctrl> <M> for
HP NetRAID Express Tools now.
Firmware Initializing
2. When the message is displayed, press <Ctrl> <M>. When the system
stops scanning, HP NetRAID Express Tools starts and displays the Tools
Management menu.
3. If you have installed one or more HP NetRAID-3Si adapters, do the
following to select the integrated controller or adapter controlling a
logical drive you want to prepare for expansion:
a. Choose Adapter from the Tools Management menu.
b. Choose the adapter controlling the logical drive.
4. Choose Objects from the Tools Management menu.
5. Choose Logical Drive from the Objects menu.
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