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Can you online expand a raid array that is a attached to a HyperV guest?

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  • 20 Haziran 2012 Çarşamba 15:56
     
     
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    I was going to use an attached physical raid array for the secondary guest drive on a HyperV guest to gain performance over formatting the array and storing a vhd there.

    If i later want to make the size of that raid array larger, IE: add another drive and do an online expansion of the array, will this work with HyperV.. will i then do as i would with a physical 2008 box and goto disk management and expand the drive there?

    I dont seem to see much info on this particular part..

    Thanks

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  • 20 Haziran 2012 Çarşamba 19:26
     
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    Hello techfun89,

    This depends on your raid level.

    If you have 2 disk and RAID 1 configured, adding 1 disk will not extend your size. It should 2 disk. Then you can.

    If you have 3 disk with RAID 5 , adding 1 disk or more can be done.

    You can do it online with vendor tools (In HP Servers , I had done many times.)

    Yes , extend drive in Disk management works.

    CAUTION: As always doing these things can cause critical issues or damage. You should backup first, then do the operation.

    Also Disk Firmware and disk type , disk size should be the same for eliminating future problems.

    Sincerely,

    Murat Demirkiran

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  • 21 Haziran 2012 Perşembe 01:46
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    Hi,

    As Murat mentioned, it depends on your RAID array type.

    By the way, did you configure the RAID array on Hyper-V host machine and then attach it to the virtual machine as pass-through disk? General speaking, you can extend the LUN on the SAN when you use it in  virtual machine as pass-through disk.

    How to Increase pass-through disk?
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/5b697aae-7b48-48a5-92e8-ee214095ebc2/