Primary Storage

Hi, 

I have a Storwize V5000 with software release 7.8.1.15, I bought 7 new disks and slot into the nearline enclosure. Now I want to add the new disks into existing mdisks (in other word to expand the current array size). From the GUI, I did not see any option to configure such a way, perhaps there's a way to do it using cli?

I know that I could just create a new mdisks utilizing all the new disks and add it into existing pool, but this way I will waste another 2 disks just for raid parity. 

regards

SH

Hello Soon, 

Assuming you have a Distributed array, support for DRAID expansion starts at version 8.3.1

See blog from Barry Whyte and Andrew Maritn about this topic: https://barrywhytestorage.blog/2020/03/25/draid-expansion-the-important-details/comment-page-1/

Hi, 

I have a Storwize V5000 with software release 7.8.1.15, I bought 7 new disks and slot into the nearline enclosure. Now I want to add the new disks into existing mdisks (in other word to expand the current array size). From the GUI, I did not see any option to configure such a way, perhaps there's a way to do it using cli?

I know that I could just create a new mdisks utilizing all the new disks and add it into existing pool, but this way I will waste another 2 disks just for raid parity. 

regards

SH

Hi TMasteen,

The mdisk that I currently have is in raid6, does this mean there's no way to expand it even though I upgrade the firmware version to 8.3.1?

regards

SH 

Hello Soon, 

Assuming you have a Distributed array, support for DRAID expansion starts at version 8.3.1

See blog from Barry Whyte and Andrew Maritn about this topic: https://barrywhytestorage.blog/2020/03/25/draid-expansion-the-important-details/comment-page-1/

Hi, 

I have a Storwize V5000 with software release 7.8.1.15, I bought 7 new disks and slot into the nearline enclosure. Now I want to add the new disks into existing mdisks (in other word to expand the current array size). From the GUI, I did not see any option to configure such a way, perhaps there's a way to do it using cli?

I know that I could just create a new mdisks utilizing all the new disks and add it into existing pool, but this way I will waste another 2 disks just for raid parity. 

regards

SH