I have an old PowerEdge 2900 server with PERC 5/i Integrated controller. I have 4 SAS HDs (136GB each) configured as RAID10. The total virtual disk size is 272GB.
On this HD, I've been running Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2007. My Exchange server information store is gobbling up the HD very quick. There's 45GB remaining space on the partition. If I don't do something quick, I will run out of free space soon.
I plan to add 2 new SAS HDs and rebuild the array as RAID10 with 6 SAS disks (total size should be 408GB). After rebuilding the array, I will have a new empty disk of 408GB in size.
My final goal is to have a fully functioning Windows Server 2008 R2 with Exchange Server 2007 running without a reinstall but a simple recover from backup. I do have nightly FULL Windows Server 2008 backup (bare metal recovery option is enabled).
Will this plan work?