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Volume Resize
Customer got some volume which they need to resize . Can they achive this with out deleteing the volume
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Customer got some volume which they need to resize . Can they achive this with out deleteing the volume
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February 17th, 2013 11:00
You can grow the volume in the group manager; just go to the volume settings and then the space tab and type in a larger number. It will allow you to take a snapshot if you want (useful in case the growing of the partition goes bad and you need to roll back).
NOTE: Depending on your OS and several other factors like the filesystem and if you're clustering play a major role in growing the partition on that volume.
If you want to shrink the volume, you'll want to let us know first which OS you are running on the server using that volume, as there are several requirements before shrinking a volume if you don't want to lose any data.
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February 27th, 2013 07:00
Similar discussion but with a direct question. How do I reclaim 10GIGs from the volume after it was increased?
After increasing a volume with 10GIGs I expanded the volume in Windows Server. Now that volume doesn't need that 10GB extra space from the SAN, I used diskpark to set aside that 10GIGs as unpartitioned space. The active volume space in Windows Server is now reading 10GIGs less. Good.
But to send that 10GIGs back to the SAN, within that volume in EqualLogic I decreased by 10GIGs however it returns a message it can't be adjusted to decrease the volume's space.
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What steps would you suggest for changing the size (increasing) in Server 2008 R2? I have a volume that is running out of space. Would like to add the original volume on the array - which has lots of available space - but not sure how the OS will handle it.
My other thought was to clone the existing volume - make my changes there. Then disconnect the running volume from the OS, and take it offline on the SAN. Turn on the Clone - and connect to the Server, assigning it the same drive letter.
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April 8th, 2015 12:00
Increasing a Volume is a 60sec. job.
- If the new volume size is beyond 2TB you need to convert the FS partition within the OS from MBR to GPT first (take a volume snapshot first)
- In GroupManager increase the volume to the new size. The "wizard" will ask you to create a snapshot and please answer with "yes"
- In Windows storage manager press "reload/refresh disks" and than select the partition and use the "increase volume" option. Check free space within the windows explorer
- Remove the EQL snapshot
Instead of using Windows storage manager also diskpart can be used. There is no downtime needed.
Regards,
Joerg