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B-8 Compaq ProLiant Clusters HA/F100 and HA/F200 Administrator Guide Shortcut method Following is a shortcut method to change a path from Active to Standby: 1. Highlight the Active path you want to change. 2. Click the right mouse button to display a pop-up menu. 3. Select Set As Standby from the menu. The selected Active path will change to Standby when you select Apply Changes or close Redundancy Manager. Expanding Capacity Redundancy Manager does not support the hot-add of logical drives. To add drives, you must: 1. Physically add the drives to the RA4000. 2. Reboot Windows NT on the server to see the new drives. Shut down and reboot the server. 3. Run the Array Configuration Utility to configure the drives. NOTE: You cannot increase the capacity of an existing Windows NT drive volume, but you can assign a new drive letter to the extra capacity furnished by the added drives. 4. Run Windows NT Disk Administrator to assign a drive letter to the newly created, unused capacity of your RAID volume. 5. While still running Disk Administrator, format the drives using Microsoft NTFS. 6. Run Redundancy Manager.

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Compaq ProLiant Clusters HA/F100 and HA/F200 Administrator Guide
Shortcut method
Following is a shortcut method to change a path from Active to Standby:
1.
Highlight the Active path you want to change.
2.
Click the right mouse button to display a pop-up menu.
3.
Select Set As Standby from the menu.
The selected Active path will change to Standby when you select Apply
Changes or close Redundancy Manager.
Expanding Capacity
Redundancy Manager does not support the hot-add of logical drives. To add
drives, you must:
1.
Physically add the drives to the RA4000.
2.
Reboot Windows NT on the server to see the new drives. Shut down and
reboot the server.
3.
Run the Array Configuration Utility to configure the drives.
NOTE:
You cannot increase the capacity of an existing Windows NT drive volume, but you
can assign a new drive letter to the extra capacity furnished by the added drives.
4.
Run Windows NT Disk Administrator to assign a drive letter to the
newly created, unused capacity of your RAID volume.
5.
While still running Disk Administrator, format the drives using
Microsoft NTFS.
6.
Run Redundancy Manager.