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capacity consumption is not exceeding expectations. If the used capacity does
exceed the specified threshold, you can recover by adding more storage to the
block storage pool.
The most important metric to monitor is the physical capacity that is used in the
storage pool. Make sure the physical allocation does not exceed the specified
threshold. The default threshold is set at 80%. To reduce the current utilization of
the used capacity, more physical capacity needs to be added to the storage pool or
data needs to be deleted from the file system. To view the current level of
utilization for block storage pools that are used for file system compression, select
Files > File Systems and ensure that the Storage pools filter is selected. The
management GUI displays all the file systems and their associated storage pools.
Select the file system and expand the file system pool to display the block storage
pool that is used for that file system. The Capacity column displays the current
used capacity for the file and the underlying block storage pools. To view specific
thresholds for individual volumes, select the NSDs filter to display the block
volumes that are used in the file system. To view specific thresholds for individual
volumes, right-click a volume and select Properties. In the upper right of the
Properties panel, an allocation bar is displayed with the current threshold indicated
by a red vertical bar.
Add any available MDisks: If an MDisk has already been created but not assigned
to a pool, complete these steps:
1. In the management GUI, select Pools > MDisk by Pools.
2. Select Not in pool to display all the available MDisks that are not currently
3. Right-click the MDisks that you want to add to the storage pool and select Add
4. On the Add to Pool dialog, select the pool and click Add to Pool.
5. Verify that the MDisk was added to the selected pool by expanding the pool
Add any available drives: If MDisks have not been configured from available
internal drives, you can provision the available drives into existing storage pools
by completing these steps:
1. In the management GUI, select Pools > Internal Storage.
2. Select Configure Storage.
3. On the Configure Internal Storage dialog, select Select a different
4. Click Finish.
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allocated to a storage pool.
to Pool.
and ensuring that the added MDisk is displayed.
configuration and complete the following steps:
a. In the Drive Class field, select the drive class that is available based on the
installed storage on the system.
b. In the Preset field, select the RAID configuration for the storage you are
configuring.
c. Select Optimize for capacity to configure all available capacity.
d. Verify the configuration and click Next.
e. Click Expand an existing pool and select the storage pool that is used for
compression.