Good day.
We have an array on an Intel SRCSAS18E controller with 4 drives in RAID 5 to which we would like to add 2 drives. I have read that this is done using several candles, a pentagram and invocation of storcli or MegaCli. We are running Vmware 5.5 with 3 MS Windows VMs.
My question is - can this RAID expansion be done on the fly ie while Vmware and its VMs are running?
How reliable is this operation? Should I anticipate trouble?
Thank you for your time,
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David Chapman