Fujitsu ETERNUS DX60 S3 User Manual page 280

Chapter 3 Volume Management
3.5 Expand Volume
Recommended conditions to obtain free space from RAID groups
• Set the same values for the following items to RAID groups where the concatenation source volume
belongs and to RAID groups that will be concatenated.
- RAID level
- Drive speed
- Drive type (Online/Nearline)
- Drive type (Online SED/Nearline SED)
- SSD type (SSD-M/SSD/SSD-M SED)
- Key group setting status (SED (Enabled Key Group)/SED (Disabled Key Group))
The speed of the drive and SSD type that configures RAID groups can be checked in the [RAID Group Detail]
screen ([Drive] tab).
• Backing up the data before performing volume expansion is recommended.
• This function cannot be used under the following conditions:
- The maximum number of volumes is already registered in the ETERNUS DX
- The hot controller firmware upgrade is being performed in the ETERNUS DX
- A RAID group diagnosis or a disk diagnosis is being performed in the ETERNUS DX
• Expanded volume capacity must be recognized by server.
• The encryption status of volumes after concatenation is the same as the concatenation source volume.
• Concatenated volumes are formatted automatically. Refer to the [Volume Detail] screen for format
progress. Refer to "Volume Detail (Basic)" in "ETERNUS Web GUI User's Guide (Operation)" for details.
• To expand the TPV capacity, refer to
• Volume expansion (LUN concatenation) can be performed even when the concatenation source volume
is being formatted.
For details on the parameters for this function, refer to
The procedure to expand volume capacity is as follows:
Procedure
1
Select the volume to be expanded and click [Expand Volume] in [Action].
"3.7.1 Expand Thin Provisioning Volume" (page
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ETERNUS Web GUI User's Guide (Settings)
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