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Before starting the howto below you should have installed SME Server 8.0 on the computer and have run and installed all updates as per a normal server installation. Leave the 6x 4TB drives unplugged until you begin the howto below.
Before starting the howto below you should have installed SME Server 8.0 on the computer and have run and installed all updates as per a normal server installation. Leave the 6x 4TB drives unplugged until you begin the howto below.
{{Warning box|This howto is intended as a guide to set a new server which has no existing data, do NOT run this on a live server without a backup of that system.}}
===Installing required tools===
You will need to install some additionally tools
yum Install parted
yum install xfsprogs
It’s usually a good idea to run… but not required
Signal-event post-upgrade;
Signal-event reboot;
When new disks are added, existing raid partitions can be grown to use the new disks. After the new disk has been partitioned, the RAID array 1/4/5 may be grown. Assuming that before growing, it contains four drives in Raid5 and therefore an array of 3 drives (3*10G) and 1 spare drive(10G). See this [[Raid#Hard_Drives_.E2.80.93_Raid|HowTo]] for understanding the automatic raid construction of SME Server
When new disks are added, existing raid partitions can be grown to use the new disks. After the new disk has been partitioned, the RAID array 1/4/5 may be grown. Assuming that before growing, it contains four drives in Raid5 and therefore an array of 3 drives (3*10G) and 1 spare drive(10G). See this [[Raid#Hard_Drives_.E2.80.93_Raid|HowTo]] for understanding the automatic raid construction of SME Server
