Use 2nd CS1000 as a shelf for existing CS1000

[jkoelker]

Hello, I have what may be an odd question. REcently we purchased an HF40 Nimble to put in our production environment. Prior to this we had a CS1000 in production and one at our disaster recovery location. The new HF40 has considerably more capacity to it and we were wanting to buy some time prior to purchasing a matching  piece of hardware for our dr location. What we are wanting to do is add what was our production CS1000 as a shelf to the dr CS1000 that has been receiving all of our replicated data. I know this is something that HPE probably supports from a maintenance standpoint, but know that it most likely is doable. Is it as simple as plugging in to a SAS port and it'll recognize it as a shelf? Anyone have first hand experience doing this type of setup even as a short term solution? Thanks in advance for any advice you may have. 

[Mahesh202]

Hi jkoelker

Hope you are doing well.!!

You can merge two arrays rather.  you can merge multiple arrays, either into a multi-array group or into a multi-array pool.
if you prefer to add an existing shelf to DR then you need to follow hardware specifications The total number of shelves is bound not by a quantity but by the Max Cache and Max Capacity for the platform.

Refer to the appropriate platform matrix in infoSight.

Also, I would request you to refer to the below link:

• https://infosight.hpe.com/InfoSight/media/cms/active/public/pubs_Hardware_Guide_HPE_Nimble_Storage_CSxxxx__SFxxx__ES2-H__ES2-AFS2__SF-ES2.whz/index.html

Hope this helps.!!

Regards
Mahesh.