MSA2040 SAS Expand RAID6

[repa1]

Hi,

we have a MSA 2040, latest Firmware with 2 SAS Controller.

We created a RAID6 (Virtual) using 6 Drives. Now, we added Drive 7 and want to expand the Array with the 7th Disk.

I can't find an option to expand the RAID, do you have any hint?

[repa1]

Hi again.

can't get it working.

CLI:

# show disks
Location Serial Number Vendor Rev Description Usage Jobs Speed (kr/min) Size Sec Fmt Disk Group Pool Tier Health
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1.1 xxxxxxx HP HPDC SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.2 xxxxxxx HP HPDC SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.3 xxxxxxx HP HPDC SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.4 xxxxxxx HP HPDC SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.5 xxxxxxx HP HPDC SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.6 xxxxxxx HP HPDC SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.7 xxxxxxx HP HPDC SAS AVAIL 10 900.1GB 512n N/A OK
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# show disk-groups
Name Size Free Class Pool Tier % of Pool Own Pref RAID Disks Spr Chk Status Jobs Job% Serial Number Spin Down SD Delay Sec Fmt
Health Reason Action
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dgA01 3594.9GB 3515.0GB Virtual A Standard 100 A A RAID6 6 0 512k FTOL 00c0ff25c6e90000d7139d5500000000 Disabled 0 512n
OK
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Success: Command completed successfully. (2015-07-09 15:14:25)

 #expand disk-group disks 1.7 dgA01

Error: The pool requested is of the wrong storage class. (2015-07-09 15:14:51)

[robsteph]

Hi did you get a response? I am getting the same error trying to expand a RAID 10 vdisk fron 4 to 8 disks. Any help appreciated I'm new to HP storage - and going off it rapidly!!

expand vdisk disks 1.17-20 dgA01

Error: The pool requested is of the wrong storage class.

thanks Rob

[Vishnu_Rao]

Issue: unable to add disks to the disk group.

HPE MSA 1040/2040/2042 Best practices
https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-6892ENW

Please check page number 39 and 40. You will see following:

Page number 39
Note Disk Group Expansion is not supported with Virtual Storage. If you have Virtual Storage and are running out of storage space, the procedure to get more storage space would be to add another Disk Group to a pool.

Page number 40:
Note Disk Group Expansion is only available when using Linear Storage. During Disk Group expansion, other disk utilities are disabled. These utilities include Disk Group Scrub and Rebuild

Hope this helps