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тАО11-17-2008 04:16 AM
тАО11-17-2008 04:16 AM
we have a productive EVA 4100 (starter kit) with one disk group composed of 8 disks (146GB each), disk drive protection level set to 'none', capacity completely used up for 2 virtual disks (vraid1 and vraid5) containing both VMware ESX storages (with approximately 80% of used space).
We want to fill up the shelf and add 6 more disks (of the same size) to the default DG in order to create a new virtual disk. How will this impact the system, especially the running VMs? What amount of time will this take approximately? Should we add all the new disks at once or do it one by one over a certain period of time? Is this a process with special risks?
Thank you
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тАО11-17-2008 04:24 AM
тАО11-17-2008 04:24 AM
Solutionit has no impact on running system, it is the standard back-end operation.
But there are several rules which have to kept:
1. consider if it is safe to continue with the NONE disk protection (in case of any disk failure it means loss of the whole data in the DG)
2. add the physical disks 1 by 1 (maximum 4) in one time and wait for their proper initialization (approx. 1 minute)
3. group the disk into the existing DG - all 6 disks at once
4. EVA controllers have the feature of automatic redistribution of the existing VDISKs across all new disks
Resume
it is the back-end operation with no impact to the frontend production IO
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тАО11-17-2008 04:40 AM
тАО11-17-2008 04:40 AM
Re: EVA 4100 disk group extension
> loss of the whole data in the DG)
I don't think you wanted to write that...
'anatol' is using vraid-1/5 so there is should be no problem with a single disk drive failure as data can be recovered through VRAID redundancy.
I agree that one should not use protection level "NONE" and:
anatol,
you should _NEVER_ fill a disk group completely. The absolute minimum is 5 GBytes of free space.
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тАО11-17-2008 05:14 AM
тАО11-17-2008 05:14 AM
Re: EVA 4100 disk group extension
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тАО11-17-2008 05:19 AM
тАО11-17-2008 05:19 AM
Re: EVA 4100 disk group extension
I agree totally with you in saying that this level of 'NONE' is far away from being ideal, but this has been configured in a situation of need for a maximum of space and has never been changed since. We considered these 'disc protection levels' (distributed sparing) as equivalent to hotspare configurations on other storage systems. In fact, we rely on vraid redundancy exclusively and must not loose more than 1 disk (just as Uwe said in his response).
By the way: provided sufficient capacity in the disk group: could we change the protection level of the DG on the fly?
Many thanks
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тАО11-17-2008 05:27 AM
тАО11-17-2008 05:27 AM
Re: EVA 4100 disk group extension
We have a nice proverb which goes like:
"nothing sticks as long as an 'interim solution'" ;-)
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тАО11-17-2008 05:48 AM
тАО11-17-2008 05:48 AM
Re: EVA 4100 disk group extension
>you should _NEVER_ fill a disk group >completely. The absolute minimum is 5 >GBytes of free space
This hasn't been taken into account for some reason.
So this means, that at present we wouldn't be able to recover successfully from failure at all?
Is this a situation we can escape from, that is: does it prevent us from extending the DG itself?
Thank you
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тАО11-17-2008 05:53 AM
тАО11-17-2008 05:53 AM
Re: EVA 4100 disk group extension
dramaticaly increase the time of the metadata operations (ungroup, leveling) and thus the eva becomes to be pretty unflexible to handle...
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тАО11-17-2008 05:56 AM
тАО11-17-2008 05:56 AM
Re: EVA 4100 disk group extension
I have not heard that this is a general problem, but I assume that you will follow best practices anyway and make sure you have a good backup before you touch the EVA.