Hi.
I have a PERC S300 controller with a RAID 1 array of two 500GB disks. The drives were full so I cloned the drives to a new 1TB drive which appeared to work. I removed the two original drives, and put the cloned drive and a blank 1TB drive into the server. I was hoping/expecting that the change of drives would be detected, that I could delete the old array and I could just rebuild a new array. That doesn't seem to be so.
I've had to boot the server, which worked, but am now off-site and only connected remotely and using OpenManage.
OpenManage showed two 1TB physical drives and two virtual drives. I deleted the virtual drive for the blank drive, and attempted to delete the virtual drive associated with the cloned drive. However, this warns me that when deleting the virtual drive with the MBR and data "All data on the disk will be lost" - or words to that effect.
Is that really the case? Would OpenManage really erase or lose the drive? I would have expected that if I delete the virtual drive I have booted from, but Windows is running, that I could then create a single RAID 1 virtual drive from the two physical drives.
The server is now running with the extra space, but without RAID. I'm just concerned that the steps I take to rebuild the mirror is actually going to take the server down completely!
Any advice would be gratefully received.