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Linux mdadm --grow RAID6: Something wrong - reshape aborted

I have a RAID60 that I want to expand. The current is: 2 axles each having 9 disks + 2 spares. The future is: 4 axles each having 10 disks + 1 spare. So I need to do some --grow to reshape the drives. I thought this would be enough: mdadm -v --grow…
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HP DL180 G6 Storage Edition (14x LFF) - Help Adding NIC ports

I have a whole bunch of these (18+) currently running. The DL180 G6 has 2x NIC ports both of which we are using, and one 16x PCI-e slot on a riser, in our case, occupied by a RAID card (mostly P410s). This means all ports/slots for expansion are…
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QNAP Expanding Storage Pool - What data will be erased?

I have Three drives plugged into my QNAP and assigned to Storage Pool 1 I added a fourth hardd rive into my QNAP and I want to add it to Storage Pool 1. I opened the Storage Manager. I opened the Storage Pools Menu. I clicked on Expanding Pool. I…
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MegaRaid SAS 8708EM2 Capacity Expansion

I have a ThinkServer RD230-4011 in hosting which initially had 4x 300Gb drives divided into 2 RAID 1 arrays using the built-in SAS 8708EM2 card, such as this: DISK 0 (300 Gb) | VD 0 (RAID 1, 300 Gb) DISK 1 (300 Gb) | DISK 2 (300 Gb) | VD 1 (RAID…
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Reboot server while HP SmartArray P410i array transformation?

Just added two more drives to a 4 drives RAID 1+0 array on my ML350 G6+SA P410i+FBWC. I also have to add an expander card (yes, I should have begun with it :/ ) but the array expansion takes a long time. So, I'm wondering if I can halt the server…
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Configuration of a Cisco IP Phone 7916 and 7975g

Hi everyone, I would appreciate some help configuring my Cisco IP Phone 7975. In fact the phone works well with the SIP firmware (version SIP75.8-4-1ES2) and an Asterisk Server. Now I would like to connect a Cisco IP Phone 7916 Expansion Module to…
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Why do internal <> external SAS expanders require a PCIe slot?

I have seen examples of home-brew NAS units that use SAS expanders plugged into a host motherboard that has neither a CPU or memory, literally for the purpose of powering the card. If the card doesn't need the PCIe slot, why are they all designed to…
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Expand existing data partition of raid volume to max volume size w/o data loss

I'm using an Areca ARC-1220 raid controller with 8x4TB HDDs (RAID-6). Initially, I had 2 volumes (à 12 TB, all data). My plan was to merge both volumes into one single volume. I deleted volume 2 (backup done) and expanded volume 1 to 24 TB (8x4-8…
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HP RAID-0 expand on DL180G6

There's HP DL180G6 Server with HP Smart Array P410 controller. Server running MySQL on Debian Linux with ext4 fs. HPACUCLI utilities (ACU CLI Version: 9.40.12.0) are installed. There's 4 HDD Seagate 600GB in RAID 10 array. I want add 2 more HDDs to…
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Bandwidth with SAS expanders and RAID controllers

Having a RAID controller that has eight internal SATA3 lanes, you can get 6 Gb/s on all eight drives. What if I connect a 24 port SAS expander to an eight port RAID controller, do I still get max throughput of 8 x 6 Gb/s, or am I able to get 24 x 6…
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Replacing 2 disks (raid 1) to a larger pair under a 3ware controller in linux

I have a 3ware 9650se with 2x 2TB disks in raid-1 topology. I recently replaced the disks with 2 larger (3TB) ones, one by one. The whole migration went smoothly. The problem I have now is, I don't know what more I have to do to make the system…
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How can I upgrade the disks in my RAID 5 array on our primary server?

Our domain server/file server has a RAID 5 setup with (3) 450 GB drives configured as 900 GB disk, which is broken into two logical partitions a 25 GB boot partition and an 875 GB storage partition. A while back we we reaching capacity so I added a…
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How do you expand a raid disk array in a dell 2850?

I have a Dell 2850 and I want to install Windows 2008 Server. Problem is that my C drive only has 16GB of space. The requirements say I need at least 20. I have an open bay for a drive. If I put in another drive, how can I add that to the array…
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Preventing expansion of : in batch file for loop

Trying to build a cmdline tool for reviewing TFS changesets. Currently I have this: rem I know there's redundancy here, but don't care for now set /A curr=%1 set /A prev=%curr% set /A prev-=1 for /f "tokens=2" %g in ('tf changeset /noprompt…
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resize2fs crashed with error : Operation not permitted While trying to add group

I was trying to expand /dev/sda3/ partition after I have added a new disk to my hardware RAID, but failed after resize2fs: [root@server5 ~]# resize2fs -f /dev/sda3 resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) Filesystem at /dev/sda3 is mounted on /; on-line…
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