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May 22nd, 2018 06:00

MD3420 Capacity extension

Hello,

Is it possible and safe during operational time to increase SAS MD3420 Disc group capacity and afterwards virtual disc capacity?

only one group and one virtual disk, raid 10

  • DELL-Sam L

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    Posted May 22nd, 2018 08:00

    Hello mrslyfox,

    Here is what is stated on page 91 of the Administrator guide under disk group & virtual disk expansion.

    “Adding free capacity to a disk group is achieved by adding unconfigured capacity on the array to the disk group. Data is accessible on disk groups, virtual disks, and physical disks throughout the entire modification operation. The additional free capacity can then be used to perform a virtual disk expansion on a standard or snapshot repository virtual disk.”

    http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/powervault-md3400_administrator-guide_en-us.pdf

    Please let us know if you have any other questions.

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    Posted May 24th, 2018 09:00

    Hello @DELL-Sam L

    But what about virtual disk capacity extension, is it safe to do that during normal operational time?

    we have defined mapping for one virtual disk with esxi 6.0u2

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    Posted May 24th, 2018 09:00

    Hello mrslyfox,

    Both Disk group expansion & Virtual disk Expansion are low priority task that can be done while the virtual disk is in production.

    Please let us know if you have any other questions.