Hello,
I have a Proliant DL380p Gen8, currently with 2 disks configured as a Raid 1. I run the HP-supplied-image of Vmware 5.5U1 on the server. I just purchased 2 more SAS drives of the same size as the existing disks (4TB each). I have a P420i controller with firmware 5.42. I would like to:
1. Convert the existing 4TB Raid1 logical drive to an 8TB Raid 1+0 logical drive without losing my existing data. Can this be done?
2. As this will take some time to do, I would like to do with the virtuals machines still running. This means using hpssacli on the ESXi 5.5U1 host. Can some give me the exact sequence of hpssacli commands for this procedure?
3. Expand the VMFS5 datastore. This part is a VMware question, not an SSA question, but I mentioned it in case anyone has insight to this step as well.
Regards,
Jeff