Reconfigure RAID-10 R630/H730Mini - no option

Hello,

Two things are always recommended when reconfiguring disks:

1.Make sure you have a valid backup

2.Make sure drivers and firmware is up to date

Are you using Dell branded hard drives with Dell firmware or third party hard drives?

Can you still access the data?

Can you post image of the OMSA virtual disk section , physical disks, and controller section with the dropdowns expanded?

Are you using the latest OMSA: v9.3.0 with (Patch), v9.3.0.2?

How did you replace the disk drives? Was it one at a time and let it rebuild into the array before trying to expand? With those size of virtual disk I would suspect it will take a very long time for each drive to rebuild into the array before you could do an online capacity expansion.

These are a few references you can use:

iDRAC 9 GUI - PERC Virtual Disk Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)

https://dell.to/45Y8y14

Video:

Dell PERC: Performing Online Capacity Expansion

https://dell.to/4cY3hIT

Hello Charles R,

- backup -> done

- drivers and firmware as described above not the newest but with the older versions on server1 i have the reconfigure option

- Hard drives not Dell but in both Server Intel drives

- i can access the data, everything works fine

- latest available OMSA is at the moment 11.0.0.0, its installed on Windows Server 2019 Datacenter (both server)

- disks are replaced one by one, rebuilt was around one hour, it takes 8 days because every day I only changed one disk, last disk change was 2 weeks ago

Link 1 is iDrac 9, I have iDRAC8 V 2.70.70.70 / V 2.81.81.81 so it looks a bit different,

The video says that only RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6 is supported, but the manual/firmware notes says RAID 10 is also possible:

firmware: 25.3.0.0016 Enhancements:
- Online Capacity Expansion for <32 disk RAID10 volumes

Image upload seems not to work, i will try it with a link later.

Server 1 - which has the Option:
OMSA virtual Disk

OMSA Physical Disks

OMSA Firmware PERC

Server 2 - here I miss it:

OMSA Virtual Disk

OMSA Physical Disks

OMSA Firmware PERC

Sorry for the links, image upload don't show anything, image link also not working.

Hello, you are using a non Dell disk for sever 2, and that's where we are seeing the yellow exclamation mark, which needs to turn green, and I'm unsure how much of help we can be of when there's a 3rd party part component is involved.
Respectfully,

@DELL-Young E​ there are also Intel SSDs in server 1 but it has the option

Hello,

i suggest you to upgrade PERC fw, iDRAC, BIOS of the server 2 and check if reconfigure option is present after the updates.

Thanks