Dell EMC PowerProtect DDVE on Google Cloud Platform 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide

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.

1. Log in to the GCP web console.
2. Select Compute Engine > VM instances.
3. Find the VM instance, and select VM instance details. Click EDIT.
4. Select Additional disks > Add new disk.
5. 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.
6. To add more metadata disks, repeat Step 4 and Step 5.
7. At the bottom of the page, click Save.
8. 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.
     Are you sure? (yes|no) [no]: yes 
     				

   For details, see Configure DDVE in GCP using CLI.
9. Alternatively, you can configure the storage using DD SM. Click Hardware > Storage > Configure Storage.