Adding New Physical Drives to an Existing Shared Storage System
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster SE500W solutions consist of two systems that share an external SCSI storage enclosure PowerVault 22xS storage system. Each system contains a PERC RAID adapter with
To add new physical drives to an existing shared storage system in the cluster, perform the following steps:
1Stop all I/O activity.
2Ensure that both nodes are online.
3Install the new physical hard drives into the PowerVault 22xS storage system.
CAUTION: See the Dell PowerVault 220S and 221S Installation and Troubleshooting Guide, which
provides safety instructions for installing components into the PowerVault 22xS storage system.
4Restart node 1 and press <Ctrl><m> during the system POST to launch the PERC RAID adapter BIOS Configuration utility.
5Configure the virtual disks.
NOTE: See the PERC RAID adapter documentation.
6Restart node 1.
7After system restarts, use Disk Manager to write the disk signature, create a new partition, assign drive letters, and format the partition with NTFS.
8Restart node 1.
9On node 1, use Cluster Administrator to add a new group (for example Disk Group n:).
10Select possible owners, but do not bring the group online yet.
11Add a new resource (for example, Disk z:).
12Select Physical Disk for the type of resource, and assign it to the new group you just created.
13Select possible owners, and select the drive letter that you assigned to the new array.
14Bring the new group that you just added online.
15Reboot node 2, and ensure that node 2 is completely online before you continue.
16To verify that the new resource group is online and the drive is accessible using the cluster name, connect to \\clustername\n$, where n is the drive letter you assigned to the newly added disk, and use Cluster Administrator to verify that you can move the new disk group to the other cluster node.
Maintaining Your Cluster
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