I am an admin. I am more familiar with Mac OS X Server than XServe RAID. XServe RAID looks spooky. My boss set up the RAID and then sort of left server administration in my lap while he goes and does other things.
We've ordered a G5 Dual 2.3 XServe. It is coming soon. The XServe RAID we have is the older type - ATA 133 drives. The new XServe will not have enough space to contain our legacy data. So we are hoping we can add an XServe RAID array or two to serve the data. The RAID now has 4x180 drives - the last is a hot spare.
My questions -
1. Can I dynamic ally change an existing XServe RAID array to add additional drives thus making it larger? We have two ATA 133 drive modules (1x250GB and 1x180) from our older XServe that I would like to reuse.
2. Is is possible to take an drive module and mount it all by itself on the XServe RAID?
3. Do all drive modules have to be the same size to create an array?
Please list any gotchas or strategies that I need to know about.
Thanks in advance.