I have an MSA1000 connected via fiber to 2 DL380G3 and 2DL380G5 servers. The MSA1000 was originally configured with 7 300GB drives in 2 arrays. Recently 7 more 300GB drives were added, from the 7 new drives a new array, (C), was created using 3 of the drives. The other 4 drives were added to the existing array (B). Since the addition, array (B) has been going through capacity expansion. It has been 2 days and it is still working on the 2nd logical drive on the array and there is still a 3rd logical drive to go.
I was able create a 4th logical drive on array (B) but it is not available because of the capacity exansion process that is running. I still need to increase the size of one of the existing logical drives on array (B) but I also can't do that until the capacity expansion process is complete.
My question is - how long should I wait for the capacity expansion process to complete? I've done this before and it did not take this long. I am worried that there is a problem but I can't identify one even after reviewing the event logs on the servers attached to the MSA1000.
Any help in resolving this is greatly appreciated.
Diane
