HPE StoreEasy 1X60 Storage, Руководство администратора

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Troubleshooting, servicing, and maintenance
Certificate of Authenticity
For technical support purposes, record the Certificate of Authenticity (COA) product key and make a print
copy of the End User License Agreement (EULA) as needed.
The COA label is used to:
• Replace the main board/motherboard.
• Upgrade the factory-installed operating system using the Microsoft Upgrade program for license validation.
• Reinstall the operating system because of a failure that has permanently disabled it.
NOTE:
Maintain the COA or a copy of the COA license information. During system board replacement, the COA is
necessary to re-establish the license of the operating system.
Adding storage
Storage growth may occur in three forms:
• Extend unallocated space from the original logical disks or LUNs.
• Alter LUNs to include additional storage.
• Add new LUNs to the system.
Expanding storage : Expansion is the process of adding physical disks to an array which is already
configured. The logical drives (or volumes) in the array before the expansions are unchanged. Only the
amount of free space in the array changes. The expansion process is entirely independent of the Operating
System.
For more information on expanding storage on the array, see Storage Array Hardware User Documentation .
Extending storage : The storage extension can be performed using:
• Windows Storage Utilities
• Disk Management
Windows Storage Utilities : Volume extension grows the storage space of a logical drive. During this
process, the administrator adds new storage space to an existing logical drive on the same array, usually after
the array has been expanded. This new storage space is either by expansion or by deleting another logical
drive on the same array. Unlike drive expansion, the operating system must be aware of the changes to the
logical drive size.
Following are the reasons for storage extension:
• Increase raw data storage.
• Improve performance by increasing the number of spindles in a logical drive volume.
• To change fault-tolerance (RAID) configurations.
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