Capacity / Expansion 3200

Yes you need to reboot. Wait 5-10 minutes and if expansion hasn't started reboot again.

Please note there are a few expansion limits.

If volume was 6453GB when you last did a factory reset you can't expand beyond 6453GB + 8TB.

You cannot expand beyond 16TB you need to do a factory default with the drives in place to get a volume of larger capacity.

I don't know when a factory reset has taken place so I guess never (needed). I asume doing this will result in loosing data and all settings?

So imagen I perform the reboot, and do not see any differences, i need to perform a reset?

Thanks.

mbr99 wrote:
I don't know when a factory reset has taken place so I guess never (needed). I asume doing this will result in loosing data and all settings?

Yes.

mbr99 wrote:
So imagen I perform the reboot, and do not see any differences, i need to perform a reset?

If you need to do a factory reset it would say that expansion failed. If nothing happens after rebooting a few times you should contact support. There may be a setting you need to change (e.g. disable disk spin-down) so that expansion can take place or some other issue they need to look at.

Performed a reboot. No changes is the result. The following can be found in the Expension log file:

[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] X_level: 6
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] MD degraded 0, bg_job 0, boot 1
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Read 1957072 byte from configuration
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Disk configuration matching with online configuration.
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] /dev/sdb used/total/partitioned = 976759997/976762584/976759997, 60000000
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] /dev/sda used/total/partitioned = 976759997/976762584/976759997, 60000000
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] /dev/sdc used/total/partitioned = 976759997/976762584/976759997, 60000000
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] /dev/sdd used/total/partitioned = 976759997/976762584/976759997, 60000000
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] /dev/sde used/total/partitioned = 976759997/976762584/976759997, 60000000
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] /dev/sdf used/total/partitioned = 976759997/976762584/976759997, 60000000
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] /dev/sdg used/total/partitioned = 976759997/1953514584/976759997, 60000000
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sdb 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sda 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sdc 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sdd 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sde 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sdf 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sdg 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sdh 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Checking: want expand from /dev/sdg 976759997, already in use /dev/sdi 976759997
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] exec command: Selected: 6 total=1953514584 used/resv=976759997/60000000 free=976754587, cl_at=0, property4k=1

[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] Not enough disk for a new array, drives with free space: 3, X_level:6
[2013/02/12 13:18:18 2265] STAGE_WIPE: Clean my_pid 2265

Oops. You're using X-RAID2 dual-redundancy, I think. You need one more 2TB disk installed before vertical expansion can take place. A RAID-6 layer needs a minimum of four disks.

You've already got your horizontal expansion (your volume capacity is what you'd get with 9x1TB disks installed using dual-redundancy).

How can I verify that? Or are you sure?

Thanks.

I'm sure.

Under a Volumes in Frontview is your Volumes Status redundant?

Add another 2TB disk to an empty bay and you will get 1TB of horizontal expansion + 2TB of vertical expansion so your volume capacity should go up to about 9TB

Take a look at the XRAID Volume Size Calculator link in my signature.

Yes.

Configuratie: RAID-niveau X-RAID2, 9 disks (double redandant)
Status: Redundant

According to the calculator is should be this:

Dual Disk Redundancy
Disk Space with Raid 6 [base 10]: 10000.000 GB = 10.000 TB
Final Useable/Filesystem Size with Raid 6 [base 2] : 9217.363 GB = 9.145 TB

In the current setup it shows this:

Dual Disk Redundancy
Disk Space with Raid 6 [base 10]: 8000.000 GB = 8.000 TB
Final Useable/Filesystem Size with Raid 6 [base 2] : 7367.366 GB = 7.309 TB

Agreed? So 1 extra 2 TB disk should do the job.

mbr99 wrote:
According to the calculator is should be this: Dual Disk Redundancy Disk Space with Raid 6 [base 10]: 10000.000 GB = 10.000 TB Final Useable/Filesystem Size with Raid 6 [base 2] : 9217.363 GB = 9.145 TB

Yes, that looks about right. Remember this is an estimate, so the actual number may be slightly different.

mbr99 wrote:
So 1 extra 2 TB disk should do the job.

Yes

Thank you for your help! We will buy an extra disk.