Overland Storage SnapServer Administrator's Manual page 113

SnapServer 7.0 Administrator's Guide
Step 2: To Expand the Basic Disk on the Microsoft Host
1. Open the Microsoft initiator tool.
2. Under Available Targets, highlight the specific iSCSI disks you expanded in the
previous procedure.
3. Click LogOn. This will connect the initiator to the selected iSCSI target.
4. Close the Microsoft initiator tool.
5. Open the Disk Management tool by right-clicking My Computer and selecting Manage.
In the Computer Management GUI, select Disk Management.
The disk will automatically reattach, and the additional expanded space in the iSCSI
disk will appear as unallocated space on the same disk.
Step 3: To Expand an iSCSI Volume using the Microsoft Diskpart Utility
1. In the Start menu, select Run and enter
window.
2. Enter the command
3. To show all the available disks on the host, enter
list disk
4. Identify the specific disk you are expanding.
5. To show all the available volumes on the host, enter:
list Volume
6. Identify the specific volume you are expanding.
7. Enter the necessary data:
a.
b.
c.
d.
8. Exit the Computer Management tool.
9. Restart the necessary application services.
To Configure the QLogic iSCSI Initiators for Microsoft Windows. The Overland Storage-
recommended QLogic QLA4010 and QLA4050/52c HBAs are iSCSI adapters that appear as
a SCSI adapter instead of a network adapter in Windows Device Manager. Before a
QLA4010 or QLA4050/52c can successfully connect to iSCSI targets, you must:
• Set initiator parameters (for example, initiator name, alias, IP address).
• Enter target information (for example, target portal information and target iSCSI
name).
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diskpart
select disk n
where n is the disk number that Diskpart indicated from the list command.
select Volume n
where n is the volume number that Diskpart indicated from the list command.
extend size=n
where n is the number of megabytes you want to expand the disk.
For example, if you are adding 10 GBs to an existing disk of 100 GBs, use the
following command:
(the number is in megabytes, 1024MBs = 1GB)
extend size=10240
The Disk Management GUI will show the newly expanded disk size.
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in the Run dialog to open a command-line
CMD
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