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thamerthamer

Level 4

11 years ago

Disk Pool Re-sizing

Hi ,

i have 2 disks pools (as showing in the attached)

1- New_Pool and (advancedisk)

2- dp_disk_drccbu01 (PureDisk)

everything is working fine with me just initially when we configure new_pool (advance Disk)we have taken all the backup on a storage unit

which is reside on this pool, later on we decide to configure another disk pool (pureDisk) and create new storage unit and start all backups on it which we need exactly,

now what i need is the bellow:

1)delete New_pool Disk pool (all the images into this pool is not needed).

2)increase the size of dp_disk_drccbu01 (pureDisk) with the free size which is deleted from new_pool.

can someone help me if that's is possible? if yes then how?

thanks

Windows Server (2003-2008)

Mark_Solutions
11 years ago
A storage unit has no relation to the size of the pool so dont confuse storage units with the actual pools

If you have removed the advanced disk pool (or shrunk it to nothing - i hope everything you did was using the CLISH or web gui for the appliance) then if it is no longer used you can delete that from the console - you do have to do this in the right order though as per the tech notes

If the de-dupe pool has been expanded then it would usually update the sizes automatically but if not right click on that disk pool and choose "inventroy disk pool"

This allows you to run an inventory which basically updates the information about the pool (which would include the new size)

It may just be how you have written it but it does concern me when you say things like partitioning and created MSDP - did you do anything manually on the appliance here or was it all done viw the CLISH or web GUI?

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Mark_Solutions
Level 6
11 years ago
good stuff - dont forget to close the thread off using the "Mark as solution" option against which evr advice helped you the most

This helps other with similar issues in the future
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thamerthamer
Level 4
11 years ago
Thanks a lot to all of you, the pool deleted and when I run inventory on the other pool it detect the whole size of the storage server .. Appreciate your clarification
Jean-Pierre_Bai
Level 4
11 years ago
You do not need to specify disk pools. Only expired images are removed.

The above two commands run periodically, typically 24 hours, you are just forcing them to run right now that's all.

You are not provoking unusual beheaviour by running these commands.
Marianne
Level 6
11 years ago
After bpimage -cleanup, run:

'nbdelete -allvolumes -force'

This command will cleanup/delete expired images from disk.
Mark_Solutions
Level 6
11 years ago
No need to specify the pool - just run it as it is

If it still doesnt go then get back to us as you may need to use another command
thamerthamer
Level 4
11 years ago

thanks,

bpimage -cleanup -allclient do i need to specify the disks pools?

as i have 2 disks pools at the moment i don't want to remove the rest of the images on the other pool ?
Umair_Hussain
Level 4
11 years ago
Manually run bpimage -cleanup -allclient, once all the clean up jobs are done try to remove your catalog.
thamerthamer
Level 4
11 years ago

i have expired all the images on advance disk pool , only one image i am not able to delete which is catalog image ,i am not able to delete it,

any suggestions ?
thamerthamer
Level 4
11 years ago

from appliance side i shrink advance disk partition to nothing and resize the dedup to be the full capacity of theappliance storage , dedup showing now 28TB from appliance GUI and CLH for sure.

what i need at end is to have one dedup pool full capacity (which already active now) of the MSDP that is already created,

what should i do after i expire all images on the new_pool (advance disk )from NBU console?

thanks
thamerthamer
Level 4
11 years ago
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