
Chapter 9: Drive Management
9.2.4 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
9.2.4.1. What Is It and How Does It Work?
Before Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion, increasing the capacity of a
RAID system using traditional methods meant backing up, re-creating,
and then restoring data. Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion allows you to
add new hard disk drives and expand a RAID level 0, 3, 5 or 6 logical
drive without powering down the system.
9.2.4.2. Two Modes of Dynamic LD Expansion
There are two modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion.
Mode 1
Mode 1 Expansion is illustrated in Figure 9-9 and involves adding more
hard disk drives to a logical drive, which may require that the purchase of
an enclosure with more drive bays. The data will be re-striped onto the
original and newly added disks.
Figure 9-9: RAID Expansion Mode 1
In Figure 9-9 above, new drives are added to increase the capacity of a
4-Gigabyte (GB) RAID 5 logical drive. The two new drives increase the
capacity to 8GB.
Mode 2
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