Adding drives

Virtual Storage Platform One SDS Block Storage Administrator Guide

Version
1.17.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-24VSP1SDS002-04

You can add drives to increase the capacity of storage pools.

Contact customer support of a list of compatible hardware.

CAUTION:

When you use the Data at rest encryption function, verify that you already performed the procedures for enabling the encryption environment settings and storage pool encryption settings described in Using Data at rest encryption in the VSP One SDS Block System Administrator Operation Guide. If you completed setup according to the VSP One SDS Block Setup and Configuration Guide for your model, procedures for enabling the encryption environment settings and procedures for enabling the settings of storage pool encryption have already been completed. After you have completed the procedures described in this section, encryption environment settings and storage pool encryption settings cannot be changed.

  • Required role: Storage

  1. (Bare metal) Make a note of the correlation between the location of all the actual drives (to be added), model name of the actual drives, and WWNs or EUIs written on the labels attached to the actual drives. See this note when removing or replacing drives. Furthermore, when you enable the Data at rest encryption function, also see this note when auditing encryption key information.
  2. (Bare metal) Insert the drives you want to add into the intended storage node.

    For details, see the server vendor's 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, verify the number of user data drives connected to each disk controller is equal for failure point distribution and load sharing.

  3. (Cloud) Perform the operation described in Creating drives (Cloud) in the VSP One SDS Block System Administrator Operation Guide.
  4. Add drives in the Drives list window or Drive detailed information window by either of the following means.

    A drive can be added when STATUS of the drive to be added is "Offline."

    • In the Drives list window, select the drive to be edited (1 to 1,024 drives), click the preceding icon to the right of the Monitor link icon, and then select Add Drives.

    • Click the preceding icon displayed for the drive to be edited in the Drives list window (displayed as inventory view), and then select Add Drives.

    • Click the preceding icon in the Drive detailed information window for the drive to be edited, and then select Add Drives.

    The drive addition dialog is displayed.

  5. Verify the displayed information, and then click Submit.

    The drive addition dialog is closed and drive addition is performed.

  6. When the following "Completed" message is displayed, processing is completed.
    • Successfully added drives.

    Confirmation of the added drives might take approximately one minute. If the added drives cannot be verified, contact customer support.