Dell ObjectScale 1.3 Administration Guide

Horizontally expand the capacity of an object store

You can expand the capacity of a previously created object store by increasing the number of Storage Server replicas in the object store.

1. From the ObjectScale Portal user interface, click Administration > ObjectScale.
   The list of Object Stores in the selected namespace that the user is authorized to view is displayed.
2. Select the appropriate namespace from the namespace drop-down on the upper right the ObjectScale Portal user interface.
3. Record the information about the current capacity of the object store by:
   NOTE:Each SS in the object store has the identical number of volumes. New SS replicas have the same number of volumes as any other existing SS in the current object store.
   1. In the table of object stores, click the name of object store whose capacity you want to expand.
   2. Click the Summary tab and locate the SS Replica Counts value in the Storage details table.
   3. Click to close this view.
4. To horizontally expand the capacity of the object store.
   1. In the table of object stores, reselect the object store using the checkbox to the left of the object store.
   2. Click EDIT to modify the object store.
   3. In the Edit Object Stores section, select the Storage portion of the wizard.
   4. Increase the number of Storage Server Replicas and then click Save.
      It takes a few minutes for ObjectScale to expand the object store. Once the expansion is completed, the object store Health returns to Available.
   In the object store list view, you can verify that the Total Utilized Capacity increases after the horizontal expand procedure is complete.
5. Return to the Summary tab and locate the SS Replica Counts in the Storage details table for the object store.
   The number of Storage Server replicas has increased.
6. Click to close this view.