Disk Pool Re-sizing

Thanks but as I mentioned before , I already resize the dedup from appliance GUI.. I think I need to do what Mark says from nbu gui to try inventory the disks

Thanks but as I mentioned before , I already resize the dedup from appliance GUI.. I think I need to do what Mark says from nbu gui to try inventory the disks

You don't need to do anything from NBU, login to web interface of your appliance and resize your dedup from there. when resize put the nubmber (size) that you want to keep for your dedup pool.

 

I would suggest you to not delete advance disk, keep some space (may be couple of hundred gig) for your catalog and may be your database backups.

ok mark got you, let me try "inventroy disk pool" on dedup pureDisk pool tomorrow after i delet the advanceDisk pool,

 

 

 

thanks for all of you, 

let me explain to you more about the current setup and mu confusion,

this is an appliance 5230 , initially i have petitioning the appliance in 2 partition one Dedup almost 80%

and advanceDisk 20%, i have created MSDP then create both disks pools (in the attached pic) then i have created the stu on Advance disk pool which we start all the backups on to it, later one what i did is ,

i have repartitioning the appliance  by deleting the 20% advance disk partition and then  i shrink the dedup petition to 100% (full size ) 

then from NBU console i have deleted the  stu which is reside on Advance disk pool,

then create another stu on pureDisk which all my backup policy running on to it,

 

my questions is:

1- as you see in the attached pic for both disk pools, we have available space for both , the new_pool which i don't need has 22 TB , if i delete this pool is that mean i will have 22TB free space that can be added to the other disk pool which is pureDisk? then this size will be reflecting to the stu reside on the pureDisk pool?

2-pureDisk pool has 19TB , is that mean that the stu which is created has 19 TB capacity size?

So whatever all of you advise me before is applicable ?

 

note: AIR is configured already on this server as source Domain for the pureDisk pool which is fine and what we need,

 

thanks ,

Make sure you follow the right process for removing your advanced disk pool, or you may have problems in the future if you ever want to create another advanced disk pool.

Something like what is below, is good. There may be a more recent one around

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH150431

If puredisk pool is on the same server maybe you should ask support if the above process is still valid.

If this is a windows then it should be straight forward

As Marianne says, expire all images in the Advanced disk pool, delete the disk pool, storage units etc. and then make both disks dynamic and expand the PureDisk Pool (I assume MSDP) disk onto the Advanced disk

In this way it will actually provide more spindles for it and so improve performance

Obviously this cannot go above 64TB (assuming you are up to date with NetBackup - if not 32TB)

Hope this helps

You will need to expire all images on the advanced disk before you will be able to remove the disk pool.

It is not possible to add another disk to MSDP pool - only one disk/volume is allowed.

You can grow existing volume at hardware level or Storage Foundation (if installed) and then re-inventory in NBU.

See steps in Dedupe manual: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5187

Topic: Resizing the deduplication storage partition