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How to add odd number of disks VNXe3300
Hello All
How to add the odd number of disks to the VNXe3300 as I have few disks left on the DPE, which is not letting me add.
Current Config - RAID5 - Disks added 7
Remaning disks on the DAE - 4
HS - 1
I would like to add remaining disks to the pool. Its saying insuffcient disks . Is there any way to add the disks through CLI.
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AUP_it
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September 30th, 2014 02:00
Last time I checked, VNXe require specific drive counts for RAID types and disks are sold in packs to facilitate this.
SAS disk are configurable in RAID5 in 6+1 config (1 parity) and only expandable similarly. You'd need to have 7 disks available to expand your current pool, so you'd end up with a pool comprising of 2 x (6+1) disk groups.
(SAS are also configurable in RAID 10 with a 3+3 config).
I've never particularly liked this requirement but for the great $ there are compromises.
You may be able to buy drives singularly to make the required number.