Adding new Scsi hard disk to Enterprise 450

I have an Ultra Enterprise 450 2x300Mhz. I want to install another 8Gig or 18Gig Scsi hard disk to the current configuration, but I dont want to re-install solaris, without giving any damage to the system.
How can i do this without losing any data in the current config.
Regards.

Solstice disk suite is a good tool for the job of managing your disks. Lets say that you want to increase the database volume, you could create a stripe accross the current disk and a fourth disk. So if you installed another 9GB drive you could create a volume as follows:
1/ Get a time window, take the database offline and unmount the database slice ( shutdown -y -g<i>n**</i> -iS ).
The shutdown command is a good way to set your system up for a backup, n** is the number of seconds before the system goes down to level S. With a properly configured SVR4 UNIX initializing to level 1 should unmount all but / and should stop all services.
2/ Dump the database filesystem to tape.
3/ Recreate a new partition table for the disk:
Slice 6 unassigned 30MB
Slice 7 /usr 8GB ( remainder of the disk
4/ Create an identical VTOC on the new disk
5/ Create meta data database:
# metadb -a -f -c 2 c0t3d0s6
# metadb -a -c 2 c0t4d0s6
6/ Create a volume out of the remaining slices from each disk:
# metainit d0 1 2 c0t3d0s7 c0t4d0s7
7/ Create a new UFS on the volume and mount it:
# newfs /dev/md/rdsk/d0
# mount -F ufs /dev/md/dsk/d0 /data
8/ Restore the data to the new filesystem and restart the database application
This is just an example, but if you read through the documentation for your version of Disk Suite you will understand this example more. As I said in my last post, this is a hard question to answer, most disk configuration are unique and depend on what application you are using. A typical configuration for an E450 with 4 slots might be - disk 0 and 1 containing OS and mirrored for availability and the ramaining disks configured for some type of volume to be used for data. Keep in mind that with the E450, you can expand up to 20 drives, so if you can get another backplane you may be able to reconfigure your system to give better availability.

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