Re: Disk Space Considerations during Migration

From: John (John_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:47:02 -0700

Thanks Peter and Rebecca. That information was very informative in regard to
expanding the disk size during Win2K3 upgrade.

But, here is my another scenario. This Server has 2 x 17GB HDD which is
Mirrored.
I plan to add another 17GB HDD and it looks confusing to me how am I going
to do this with with IBM ServeRAID Manager which ofcourse is a question to
ask IBM Server Support Team.

If it was a RAID 5 with 3 x 17GB it would have been easier for me to add
another 17GB and combine it with the existing RAID 5 by creating another
ARRAY. Now, when I add another 17GB to this existing 2 x 17GB Mirrored
disks, I am just wondering what I will be doing? A big ????

And there is no provision for new hardware and the customer wants it to do
it in the existing hardware itself. I know its easy to rebuild it rather than
figuring out, but I am used to BINDVIEW tool for migrating user accounts, and
not ADMT so, that is where my whole issue is.

I appreciate your response.

thanks

"Rebecca Chen [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> As Peter said, 325857 can expand the partition, but the boot partition
> should be consecutive with the unassinged partition.
>
> Therefore, I suggest you move the data from the data partition to a new
> hard disk, and then expand the boot partition.
>
> HTH!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rebecca Chen
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