Dell EMC PowerProtect DDVE in VMware Cloud 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide
Expand metadata storage
Expand metadata storage by adding new metadata disks.
Prerequisites
It is recommended that you expand metadata storage by adding new metadata disks. When the total number of metadata disks reaches its limit, you can expand metadata storage by increasing the size of existing metadata disks.
- Before expanding metadata storage, disable the file system.
- You cannot expand the first metadata disk.
- Observe the recommended increment size of 1024 GiB.
- Shrinking metadata disk size is not supported.
Steps
- Log in to the vShpere Client. From the navigation pane, under Compute Resource Pool, find your DDVE, and stop it.
- Right-click the VM, and select Edit Settings...
- Select the metadata disk that you plan to expand.
NOTE You cannot expand the first metadata disk.
- Increase the size of the selected metadata disk (for example, from 1 TB to 2 TB).
- Click OK.
- To increase the size of other metadata disks, repeat Step 3 and Step 4.
- Start the DDVE.
- To confirm the disk size change, use the Disk show hardware or Storage show all command.
- Disable the file system with the filesys disable command.
- Expand metadata storage with the filesys expand command.
- Enable file system with the filesys enable command, and check file system status with filesys status command.
- To confirm the metadata storage expansion, use the filesys show space tier active local-metadata command.
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