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Adding a Disk Drive to a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or on a PERC 6/i Controller

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To start the Reconstruction Wizard, select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of the Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager window and then select Operations-> Advanced Operations-> Reconstruction Wizard from the menu. This section has the following subsections explaining the Reconstruction Wizard options: • Adding a Disk Drive to a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or on a PERC 6/i Controller • Changing the RAID Level of a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or on a PERC 6/i Controller Adding a Disk Drive to a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or on a PERC 6/i Controller NOTICE: Be sure to back up the data on the virtual disk before you add a drive to it. Follow these steps to add a disk drive to a configuration with the Configuration Wizard: 1 Select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of the Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager window and then select Operations-> Advanced Operations-> Reconstruction Wizard from the menu to start the Reconstruction Wizard. 2 Click Add Drive on the Reconstruction Wizard menu screen, and then click Next. 3 When the next screen appears, select an available disk drive in the top panel and click the down-arrow Add button to move it to the Selected Drives list. 4 Click Next to continue. The next screen appears. 5 (Optional) Select a different RAID level for the configuration from the drop-down menu in the lower right of the window. 6 Review the information in the window. If everything is acceptable, click Finish. A Reconstruct operation begins on the virtual disk. You can monitor the progress of the reconstruction in the Group Show Progress window. To do this, select Group Operations-> Show Progress. Configuration 39

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Configuration
39
To start the Reconstruction Wizard, select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of
the Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager window and then select
Operations->
Advanced Operations-> Reconstruction Wizard
from the menu. This section
has the following subsections explaining the Reconstruction Wizard options:
•
Adding a Disk Drive to a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or on a
PERC 6/i Controller
•
Changing the RAID Level of a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or
on a PERC 6/i Controller
Adding a Disk Drive to a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or on a
PERC 6/i Controller
NOTICE:
Be sure to back up the data on the virtual disk before you add a drive to it.
Follow these steps to add a disk drive to a configuration with the
Configuration Wizard:
1
Select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of the Dell SAS RAID Storage
Manager window and then select
Operations-> Advanced Operations->
Reconstruction Wizard
from the menu to start the Reconstruction
Wizard.
2
Click
Add Drive
on the Reconstruction Wizard menu screen, and then
click
Next
.
3
When the next screen appears, select an available disk drive in the top
panel and click the down-arrow
Add
button to move it to the Selected
Drives list.
4
Click
Next
to continue. The next screen appears.
5
(Optional) Select a different RAID level for the configuration from the
drop-down menu in the lower right of the window.
6
Review the information in the window. If everything is acceptable, click
Finish
.
A Reconstruct operation begins on the virtual disk. You can monitor the
progress of the reconstruction in the Group Show Progress window. To do
this, select
Group Operations-> Show Progress
.