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тАО03-12-2010 11:35 AM
тАО03-12-2010 11:35 AM
The group is made up of 300GB FC 10K drives.
And the only drive I have available to group is a 600GB FC drive.
The total capacity of the group is 14798.64GB
The current occupancy is 14092.1 GB.
55 disks in the group.
SINGLE protection.
What happens to my capacity if I add a single 600GB drive?
Will the capacity actually decrease? Since I believe the group will now reserve two virtual disks of 600GB in size instead of 300GB (which it should be doing as it currently only hadd 300GB drives in the group)
Thoughts?
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тАО03-12-2010 12:12 PM
тАО03-12-2010 12:12 PM
SolutionAnd as you have an odd number (55) of disks in the group, the EVA will 'marry' a 300GB disk with the 600GB disk (for VRAID-1 data). As far as I can tell, only 300GB can be used on the new disk drive.
So you 'win' 300GB by the additional disk drive, but 'lose' 600GB for the protection level. Unless I miss something that's -300GB.
All these are precautions if one fills (or attempts to do so) a disk group with 100% VRAID-1 data new or at some future day.
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тАО03-12-2010 01:51 PM
тАО03-12-2010 01:51 PM
Re: Adding a 600GB disk to a group with 300GB drives
All the disk is carved as Vraid5. That would hurt a little less than your scenario with the vraid1.????
Note I have 7x600GB ungrouped in the array. Guess I could add 3x600GB disks.
Reservation would go from 600 to 1200GB.
But then I'd get 1200 from the two additional drives.
That make sense?
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тАО03-13-2010 12:19 AM
тАО03-13-2010 12:19 AM
Re: Adding a 600GB disk to a group with 300GB drives
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тАО03-13-2010 10:46 AM
тАО03-13-2010 10:46 AM
Re: Adding a 600GB disk to a group with 300GB drives
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тАО03-14-2010 12:36 PM
тАО03-14-2010 12:36 PM
Re: Adding a 600GB disk to a group with 300GB drives
It looks like he has only one 600GB disk available.
The min # of drives you need to create a disk group is 8 ...
Cheers
Pete
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тАО03-14-2010 11:45 PM
тАО03-14-2010 11:45 PM
Re: Adding a 600GB disk to a group with 300GB drives
Sounds like one disk is missing for a new disk group.
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тАО03-14-2010 11:56 PM
тАО03-14-2010 11:56 PM
Re: Adding a 600GB disk to a group with 300GB drives
In that case I would go for adding those 7 drives to the existing disk group.
The overall performance distribution will in most cases be better than having a large 300GB and a very small 600GB group.
Your net gain will be round 6x 600GB.
Cheers
Pete
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тАО03-16-2010 11:48 AM
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тАО03-16-2010 01:42 PM
тАО03-16-2010 01:42 PM
Re: Adding a 600GB disk to a group with 300GB drives
Currently levelling but all looks good.
Thanks for the feedback.