We have an R710 server with a RAID 1 configuration. Went to add 6 more hard drives recently and then went to configure RAID 5, but it wouldn't let us. There's a SAS6 controller in there and it won't allow us to configure RAID5. Contacted our Dell rep and he said we would need a PERC H700 controller. Been trying to get a straight answer from him, but it's nothing but confusion.
My question being. Can I have both controllers installed? Keep the original RAID 1 config and then add the new PERC controller to make that RAID 5 for additional storage?
I really don't want to start over and transfer everything to the new RAID 5 config. This is a host server for 4 virtual machines.
Thanks in advance.