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Resizing a volume – SANRAD I3.1.1205 User Manual

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Chapter 8: Advanced Volume Operations

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If you are working in

a V-Switch cluster, a

volume must be

resized on both V

Switches.

You can increase a virtual volume’s potential capacity using the CLI
command volume resize. This is the first step in increasing a virtual
volume’s actual capacity. Potential capacity is the maximum capacity a
volume could be. Actual capacity is the capacity that the server recognizes
a virtual volume as having.

Resizing a volume is done while the top-level volume in the hierarchy is
exposed on an iSCSI target. Simple, snapshot, concatenated and previously
resized volumes can be resized. Resizing a volume concatenates a new volume
with the source volume. Only a simple volume can be used to resize a simple
or snapshot volume.

After one or more volumes in a hierarchy are resized, the volume must be
expanded to make its actual capacity equal to its new potential capacity. See
“Expanding a Volume”.