Adding Storage System Capacity; End-To-End Process For Adding Drives And Drive Enclosures; Adding Disk Drives And Drive Enclosures; Verifying The State Of The New Drives And Enclosures - HP storevirtual 3200 User Manual

Adding storage system capacity

The capacity of the storage system can be increased by adding disk drives to an existing enclosure, or by
adding a new HPE StoreVirtual 3000 drive enclosure. Up to three drive enclosures can be added to the
storage system for a total of four enclosures.
IMPORTANT:
Removing existing disk drives or an existing drive enclosure from the storage system to reduce usable
capacity is not supported.

End-to-end process for adding drives and drive enclosures

Adding disk drives and drive enclosures

NOTE: Depending upon the configuration, set aside an hour to add disk drives and drive enclosures.
Procedure
1. Stop all applications that are using the StoreVirtual storage system.
2. Stop all disk I/O to and from the StoreVirtual storage system.
3. Unplug both power supplies from the StoreVirtual storage system.
4. Install all disk drives in the new enclosure.
See Adding disk drives for more information.
5. Mount the drive enclosure.
See Adding a disk enclosure for more information.
6. Connect the SAS cables from new enclosure to the StoreVirtual storage system.
See Network cabling configurations for more information.
7. Apply power to the new enclosure and wait one minute.
8. Apply power to the StoreVirtual storage system.
Once the system is completely powered on, log on to the StoreVirtual Management Console as described
in the HPE StoreVirtual 3200 Storage Installation Guide.

Verifying the state of the new drives and enclosures

Procedure
1. Browse to Storage Systems from the StoreVirtual Management Console menu.
2. Click Storage System Report from the menu next to the name of the storage system you have upgraded.
3. Scroll down under the Drive Info section. You can see all added drives with their respective drive models,
serial numbers, capacity level, and firmware revision details.
NOTE: HPE recommends validating the added drive firmware and matching the revisions against the
existing configuration revision.
4. Scroll down further and under the Drive Status section, the added drives show a status of Uninitialized.
5. Under Enclosure Information, displayed details include firmware, model number, and a health status of
normal.
NOTE: HPE recommends validating the added enclosure firmware and matching the revisions
against the existing configuration revision.
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