Add more metadata disks for DDVE from the GCP web console
When required, from the GCP web console, add more metadata disks for the existing DDVE.
About this task
Although GCP provides four types of disk storage, DDVE supports only the following:
SSD persistent disk for the root disk
SSD persistent disk for the NVRAM disk and metadata/data disks
Check
Table 3 for recommendations on the metadata disk size.
Steps
Log in to the GCP web console.
Select
Compute Engine > VM instances.
Find the VM instance, and select
VM instance details. Click
EDIT.
Select
Additional disks > Add new disk.
Specify the following:
Name for the disk
Type [SSD persistent disk]
Size (GB) [2048 for 256 TB, 1024 for other capacities]
For other fields, use default values. Then click
Done.
NOTE If more disks are created for metatdata by selecting
Compute Engine > Disks, these disks can be attached to the DDVE by selecting
Additional disks > Attach existing disk.
To add more metadata disks, repeat Step
4 and Step
5.
At the bottom of the page, click
Save.
Log in to the DDVE to configure the storage.
NOTE Step
9 provides another alternative for configuring the storage.
Use the command
disk show hardware to check for the new disks that were added.
Use the command
storage add tier active dev<n> to add the disks to active tier.
Use the command
filesys expand to expand the filesystem onto the newly added disk:
# filesys expand
The filesystem will be expanded approximately to 261.93 TiB.
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