Using The Storevirtual Management Console To Scale Up The Storage System; Verifying The Added Capacity In The Storevirtual Management Console; Adding Disk Drives - HP storevirtual 3200 User Manual

Using the StoreVirtual Management Console to scale up the storage system

Prerequisites
• Confirm that the disk and enclosures were added.
• Determine that the health status of the enclosure is listed as Normal.
Procedure
1. On the StoreVirtual menu, select Storage Systems.
2. Select the storage system from the navigation pane.
3. Select Overview from the Storage System menu on the content pane.
4. On the right bottom corner, view the added drive count under Available storage and Unused disks.
5. Select the Add RAID option from the Actions menu on the right top corner of the Overview page.
The Add RAID page displays available RAID options depending on the drives added.
6. Select the desired RAID configuration and click Add RAID.
The Tasks page is displayed so that you can monitor the scale-up progress until it completes.

Verifying the added capacity in the StoreVirtual Management Console

Procedure
1. On the StoreVirtual menu, select Storage Systems.
2. Select the upgraded storage system in the navigation pane.
The page displays all configured RAID arrays and you can validate that the arrays are healthy and in a
normal state.
3. Select Storage from the Storage System menu on the content pane.
4. 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.
5. Scroll down further to the Drive Status section. Newly configured drives show a status of Active or Hot
Spare depending upon the configuration chosen during the Add RAID operation.
6. On the StoreVirtual menu, select Storage Pool.
7. Verify that the cluster space has increased as a result of the scale-up.

Adding disk drives

When adding disk drives to the storage system, observe the following guidelines.
Procedure
1. Within a drive enclosure or an array enclosure, drives should be installed in groups according to type and
capacity (in that order), from smallest to largest.
a. Install SSDs in the lowest slot.
b. Install 10K SFF SAS drives.
c. Install 7.2K LFF MDL-SAS drives.
2. It is a best practice that enclosures of the same type (SFF, LFF) have an equal number of drives or one
less than the enclosure with the most disk drives. However, you can add a 25 slot SFF or a 12 slot LFF
enclosure and populate it with only a few drives.
NOTE:
When drives are added to a configuration, the existing drives must not be moved and the new drives
must be added as indicated.
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