You have to extend the virtual disk from the command line on a system that has MDSM installed on it.
Go to the folder where the smcli (storage manager command line interface) is installed. On Windows systems, this typically would be C:\Program Files\Dell\MD Storage Manager\client.
From there issue a:
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Note: After you grow the disk, the OS does need to grow the partition to be able to use the extra space. On Windows, use diskpart, on Linux, read the fdisk man-pages. Also; if you're intending to grow to a size larger than 2TB, make sure your OS can support this (e.g. VMware ESX/vSphere doesn't support disks over 2TB (2048GB minus 512 bytes is the actual maximum for ESX).
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July 28th, 2009 10:00
You have to extend the virtual disk from the command line on a system that has MDSM installed on it.
Go to the folder where the smcli (storage manager command line interface) is installed. On Windows systems, this typically would be C:\Program Files\Dell\MD Storage Manager\client.
From there issue a:
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4
smcli -n array_name -c "set virtualdisk [\"virtualdiskname\"] addCapacity=size_in_bytes";
Note: After you grow the disk, the OS does need to grow the partition to be able to use the extra space. On Windows, use diskpart, on Linux, read the fdisk man-pages. Also; if you're intending to grow to a size larger than 2TB, make sure your OS can support this (e.g. VMware ESX/vSphere doesn't support disks over 2TB (2048GB minus 512 bytes is the actual maximum for ESX).
sgosden
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July 29th, 2009 03:00
Thanks for this, just tested it and it worked. Shame you cant do it in the GUI but at least you can do it.
Thanks
Simon