Seeing Scalability @ work

Tue. Jul. 01, 2008

A video showing the process of expanding a volume on a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. 

Its amazingly simple:  First, you expand the volume in the management console, which automatically takes unused capacity from the free pool - including additional space you will need for snapshots. Then you go to the system side and expand the size of the file system. In this case, it shows using DISKPART in Windows.

And without further ado......

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Only published comments... Tuesday, July 01, 2008 09:47 AM
by Marc Farley, Inside IT Lead Blogger
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Jason said:

How bout the other away around. How can we easily make a a volume smaller that we made to big the first time around.

Also for us who are getting onto thin provisioning, are there any negatives to it? For example does it use more IO, does it get slower at a certain fill point? IE if i only have 5 gigs left on a thin provisioned volume will i see performance issues?

 

 

 

July 1, 2008 6:02 PM

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