Dell PowerVault NX1950 - Manual (Page 41)

Expanding Your SAN Storage
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Expanding Your SAN Storage
You can easily expand individual Dell|EqualLogic PS Series volumes and
SAN capacity, online and without disruption. You can increase the size of a PS
Series group volume by using the Group Manager GUI or CLI. You must then
enable Microsoft
®
Windows
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operating system to recognize the size change.
The following section gives you information about increasing SAN capacity to
accommodate new volumes or expanded volumes. You can add more
members to the PS Series group. For more information, see "Increasing PS
Series Group Capacity" on page 43.
Increasing the Size of a PS Series Volume
You can use the Group Manager GUI or CLI to increase the size of a PS Series
volume without disrupting users. You do not have to reboot the Dell™
PowerVault™ NX1950 system, and the space is immediately available. Follow
these steps to use the Group Manager GUI to increase the size of a volume:
1 Expand Volumes in the far left panel, and select the volume name.
2 In the Activities panel of the window that appears, click Modify volume
settings. In the Modify Volume Settings window, verify that the Free
group space displayed in the space utilization table is larger than the
desired expansion size.
3 Specify the new volume size, as shown in Figure 7-1 and click OK.
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