Adding storage to ESXi 4.1

[MarcoWFS]

Need help.

I've an ESXi with 2 VM running on 3 x 148GB HDDs RAID 5.

I'm running out of datastore space and to solve this problem I was told to buy 2 x 600GB HDDs and connect them as RAID 1.

My question is this:

How do I move the ESXi to the new RAID 1 ?

What do you people reccomend to do ?

BRGDS

Marco

[arturka]

Hi and welcome on community

Lets summarize:

You have standalone server and you running out of capacity on current RAID5 Direct Attached Storage (DAS), right ?

So, everything depends pretty much on what hardware do you have.

• can you extend current Hardware configuration  ?
• can you add second RAID controller ?

can you add 2 more disks without replacing old disks ?

Cheers
Artur

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[MarcoWFS]

Yes that's right,

• the server is running on Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S5
  
• yes it is possible to add a second raid controller
  
• yes I can add 2 more HDD without removing the old ones (6 slots available where 3 are used for the 148GB disks)
  

BRGDS

Marco

[arturka]

Hi

so, it that situation I would do:

• Add 3x600GB and create a RAID5 (you don't waste a HDD solt)
• Create a new VMFS datastore
• depends on situation - I would either move VM from old datastore to new datastore or just add new VMDK to VM and place it to new datastore.

Cheers
Artur

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