Re: [Users] SAN storage expansion

2014-03-18 11:00 GMT+01:00 Liron Aravot <laravot(a)redhat.com&gt;: > Hi Giorgio, > perhaps i missed something - but why don't you want to extend the domain by right click and editing it? > Hi Liron, we are talking about an iSCSI storage domain. In the edit dialogue I don't see anything regarding resize or extend. If I just click OK at this point nothing changes. Maybe it's me that I'm missing something. Which action could trigger a pvresize ?

In the meantime I'll try Elad's procedure. > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Giorgio Bersano" <giorgio.bersano(a)gmail.com&gt; >> To: "Elad Ben Aharon" <ebenahar(a)redhat.com&gt; >> Cc: &quot;users(a)ovirt.org&quot; <Users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:28:14 AM >> Subject: Re: [Users] SAN storage expansion >> >> 2014-03-18 9:15 GMT+01:00 Elad Ben Aharon <ebenahar(a)redhat.com&gt;: >>> Hi, >>> >>> LUNs size are being updated using the multipath mechanism. In order to >>> update storage domain size, you'll need to update the physical volume size >>> using LVM on you hypervisors. >>> >>> Please do the following: >>> 1) Put the storage domain to maintenance >>> 2) Execute on your hosts: >>> 'pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize' with the new physical volume size (150G) >>> 3) Activate the storage domain >> >> Thank you Elad, >> I knew it was required a pvresize command but wanted to be sure that I >> wasn't disrupting possible storage parameters bookkeeping by the oVirt >> system. >> I'm wondering if it's because of this that SD has to be put in maintenance. >> >> Any chance to have the SD resize without putting it offline, for >> example doing pvresize on the SPM node and then pvscan on every other >> host involved? >> I'm sure there are use cases where this is would be of great convenience. >> >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Giorgio Bersano" <giorgio.bersano(a)gmail.com&gt; >>> To: &quot;users(a)ovirt.org&quot; <Users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >>> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 7:25:36 PM >>> Subject: [Users] SAN storage expansion >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I'm happily continuing my experiments with oVirt and I need a >>> suggestion regarding storage management. >>> >>> I'm using an iSCSI based Storage Domain and I'm trying to understand >>> which is the correct way to extend it's size some time after it's >>> creation. >>> >>> Please consider the following steps: >>> >>> 1) Using storage specific tools create a new volume on iSCSI storage >>> (e.g. 130.0 GiB) >>> >>> 2) in oVirt webadmin: Storage -> New Domain , select the previously >>> created storage (130 GB), OK, after some time it's online: >>> Size: 129 GB ; Available: 125 GB ; Used: 4 GB >>> >>> 3) Use according to your needs (even noop is OK) >>> >>> 4) Using storage specific tools expand the new volume (e.g. 20.0 GiB >>> more, now it says 150.0GiB) >>> >>> 5) in webadmin: Storage, click on the domain, Edit. Looking at >>> Luns>Targets , now it correctly sees 150GB >>> >>> BUT >>> on the Storage tab it continues to be seen with >>> Size: 129 GB ; Available: 125 GB ; Used: 4 GB >>> >>> >>> Do you think it is possible to make oVirt aware of the new available >>> storage space? Am I missing something obvious? >>> >>> My setup is oVirt 3.4.0 RC2 with fully patched CentOS 6.5 hosts. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Giorgio. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users