Insert the drives you want to add into the intended storage node.
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Required role: Security, Storage, Monitor, Service, or Resource
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Make a note of the correlation among the installation location, drive SKU, and
WWN or EUI written on the label of all the actual drives to be added.
See this note when removing or replacing drives. Furthermore, when you enable Data at rest encryption, also see this note when auditing encryption key information.
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Insert the drives you want to add into the intended storage node.
For details, see the server vendor documentation.
Note:Mount a user data drive in any drive slot of your choice, making sure that the user data drive is connected to a disk controller that is connected to only user data drives. At this time, if there are multiple disk controllers to which user data drives are connected, connect the same number of user data drives to each disk controller for failure point distribution and load sharing.
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Obtain a list of drives and verify the added drives.
Use the query parameter to specify the ID of the storage node with the added drives and run either of the following commands.
REST API: GET /v1/objects/drives
CLI: drive_list
It may take up to a minute for the added drives to be verified.
If the added drives cannot be verified, contact customer support.