topic Expand pool and volume in HPE MSA Storage

Expand pool and volume

alekseevsa — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 04:09:21 GMT

Hello,

I have HP MSA 2040, currently there was 1 linear disk group RAID 6 (10 drives + 2 spare), 1 volume 100% disk space 9.5TB.

Now I added 12 more drives (I'd like to do the same, 10 for RAID 6 + 2 spare), 14.3TB

How could I expand current volume, that it be 23.8TB (9.5Tb + 14.3TB)?

Is it possible and which steps should I do?

Screenshots from web console: https://imgur.com/a/NJrq4TF

Thank you.

Re: Expand pool and volume

JonPaul — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:19:51 GMT

@alekseevsa
With Linear storage you are unable to concatenate volumes across disk-groups within the MSA. Your best bet is likely setting up the host OS to span 2 volumes from the MSA.
Alternatively you could convert to a Virtual storage implementation on the MSA, likely a lot of copying back and forth. But that is a lot of effort for an older storage device.

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