Thank you,
for the info.
What I can tell you is it would be nice to have your backend storage. Heck I have done 300 or 400gb svmtions that took that long... I do not know what the underling disk structure of the raid groups are since im not privy to that info. oh well, i was trying to figure it out so I can figure out a downtime, im just going to do it while the vm is online. I rather not but life goes on.
thanks