Hi Vel,

Joe is right on the money with what he stated.  However, if you still want to change the Windows Dynamic Diskgroups to SFW Dynamic Diskgroups, you just need to right click on them and select upgrade diskgroup.

Keep in mind that the only exception to this, is that you cannot convert/upgrade the diskgroup to SFW dynamic diskgroups if the boot or system volumes are in the Windows Dynamic diskgroup.  Basically if it contains the C: drive then it cannot be upgraded.

Expanding the volumes are a simple matter of right clicking on the volume and selecting resize volume. 

Again, their are some issues with the boot and system volumes.  These volumes are limited by Microsoft to only be expanded to contigous diskspace.  In other words, they have to expanded to diskspace on the same physical drive that is immediately after the C: drive ends.

Thanks,

Wally

I have a doubt without upgrading the dynamic disk groups to SFW expansion not possible ?

Can you provide some additional detail around the issue you are facing while trying to expand a RAID-5 volume?  Does VEA give you a specific error? 

Hi Vel,

RAID 5 volumes can be expanded.  Most customers run into a problem in that they are not trying to add enough luns to expand a RAID5 volume. 

For example, if you recreate a RAID 5 volume using 3 luns initially and you add a new lun to expand the RAID 5 volume to, then it will fail.  However, if you add 3 new luns then will be able to expand the RAID 5 volume.  Similarly, if the RAID 5 volume was initially with 5 luns then 5 new luns need to be added to expand the RAID 5 volume.

Hopefully, that helps point you to your problem. If not please provide more details on what your issue is.

Thanks,

Wally

Hi Wally,

I understood your point. Even after upgrading the volume to VSF dynamic group failing to expand the volume. Here the situation we struck,

Error V-76-58645-260
Either no disk space is available on your dynamic disks or the
configuration is not valid to complete this operation.

15 LUN x 100 GB already located in the RAID 5 Volume. (Not sure how intially setup was)
We are trying to expand the volume with 1 LUN x 100 GB.

Thanks.

Hi Vel,

In SFW, you will need to check how many columns make up your RAID 5 volume.  In order to expand and SFW RAID 5 volume you will need to add addtitional luns so that each column can be expanded.  For example, if your RAID 5 volume has 3 columns then you will need to add 3 new LUNs to expand the volume.  If your RAID 5 volume has 5 columns then you will need to add 5 new LUNs to expand the volume.

You can find out how many columns are in your SFW RAID 5 volume byright clicking on the volume in VEA and selecting "Properties".  While you are at the properties dialog box local the Columns entry.  This will let you know the number of LUNs that you need to add to expand the RAID 5 set.

Thanks,

Wally

Hi Vel,

If you still have problems please post a screenshot of your volume's Properties page.

Thanks,

Wally

Error V-76-58645-260 occurs when attempting to expand a volume using Storage Foundation (tm) for Windows

See the below TN which may helps you alot:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...