HP NetRAID 1Si Controller - Manual (Page 116)

Chapter 6 Capacity Expansion
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Planning for Online Capacity Expansion under NetWare 4.2
To permit easy capacity expansion of a NetWare 4.2 installation, plan ahead and
consider your storage use.
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Since NetWare 4.2 permits only one NetWare partition per logical drive,
make the NetWare partition the size of the virtual logical drive in advance
so that you can expand that volume.
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Under NetWare 4.2, you cannot grow a partition, but you can add
additional segments within an existing partition. The added segments can
be "joined" to be part of the same volume, or they can be made into
separate volumes.
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NSS volumes are not supported in NetWare 4.2.
NOTE If NetWare 4.2 must be installed on the disk array, create a
single logical drive with Virtual Sizing enabled. Create a DOS
partition of 500 MB or less for booting. NetWare volumes can
then be added after the DOS partition on the same logical
drive. The unused space on the partition can be used later for
capacity expansion. Be sure to follow the precautions above.
In most installations, the operating system is installed on a SCSI drive connected
outside of the HP NetRAID system. However, NetWare can reside on a disk array
in the HP NetRAID system to achieve redundancy.
Preparation Steps for NetWare 4.2
This section tells you how to enable Virtual Sizing and set up your partitions to
permit easy capacity expansion. It assumes that you have already installed
NetWare 4.2.
The following steps are necessary to prepare your logical drive for online capacity
expansion:
I. Connect disk drives to HP NetRAID
II. Configure HP NetRAID
III. Enable Virtual Sizing in HP NetRAID Express Tools
IV. Create the NetWare partition in NetWare 4.2
V. Create the NetWare volume in NetWare 4.2