Expand The File System - Dell EMC Data Domain DD9800 Installation Manual

About this task
Use electronic licensing to add Active Tier, Archive Tier, or Cloud Tier storage on DD OS versions 6.0 and higher.
Steps
Run the elicense update command to add the electronic license file to the system.
● Specify the <license-file> parameter when the command is run to allow it to proceed without prompting.
# elicense update electronic-license-file.txt
● Run the command without parameters to run the command interactively.
# elicense update
Enter the content of license file and then press Control-D, or press Control-C to
cancel.

Expand the file system

Prerequisites
The new storage must be added to the file system before it can be used.
About this task
Complete the following tasks to add the new storage to the file system.
Steps
1. Add the storage to the file system.
NOTE: Adding Cloud Tier storage does not require expanding the Data Domain file system.
● Run the filesys expand command to add Active Tier storage.
# filesys expand
● Run the filesys archive unit expand <archive-unit-number> command to add Archive Tier storage.
# filesys archive unit expand 1
2. Run the filesys show space command to verify the system recognizes the additional capacity.
# filesys show space
Active Tier:
Resource
---------------- --------- -------- ---------- ---- -------------
/data: pre-comp
/data: post-comp
/ddvar
---------------- --------- -------- ---------- ----- -------------
3. Run the disk show state command to verify the system displays a status of In Use or Spare for the new disks.
● For a new disk pack in an existing DS60:
# disk show state
Enclosure
Row(disk-id)
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1
2
E(49-60)
D(37-48)
C(25-36)
B(13-24)
A( 1-12)
100 Add Storage Capacity
Size GiB Used GiB Avail GiB
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160187.0 0.2
308.1 2.8
Disk
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Use% Cleanable GiB
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289.7 1%
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